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Mineral Specimens with Scheelite
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7.4 x 5.8 x 3.4 cm. Beautiful red-orange scheelites mounded up one atop another, with crystals to 1.2 cm, on contrasting matrix.
5.3 x 4.1 x 3.1 cm. This specimen features a starkly contrasted, sharp, freestanding, 2.75-cm long crystal (2.5 cm and 2.2 cm in depth and width). The crystal is complete all around and is extremely 3-dimensional, with great aesthetics upon its perch!
4.8 x 4.4 x 2.8 cm. A hefty, robust, floater cluster of intergrown large scheelites! This cluster is complete all around, though with a few minor contacts that seem to have re-healed (showing microcrystallized growth over perhaps a break or contact) in situ.
6.9 x 6.5 x 5.3 cm. This is certainly an important Pakistani specimen, I would say, for the overall size and impact of the 5-cm crystal perched in a cluster. It is a hefty, robust specimen whose combination of pale orange color and oddly "soft" form make it distinct from Chinese material.
5.6 x 5.2 x 3.4 cm. This is the gemmiest crystal I have yet seen, looking more like a garnet than a scheelite, softly nestled in amongst sharp, gemmy quartz points! The crystal measures 2 cm longest dimension, and leaps out at you visually. It’s a superb piece from any locality.
4.5 x 3.8 x 2.6 cm. This large compound crystal has many extra faces, from side growths, and so is very reflective and interesting in a case. Again, as with some others here, the size would make you think it’s from China but it really is not! The largest crystal is 3 cm as it looks on the front, though really I think this is all one single crystal with multiple outgrowths.
5.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm. A very unusual and wonderfully aesthetic combo specimen that features gem fluorites in association with a cluster of razor-sharp scheelites – with little snowy calcite rhombs and a euhedral quartz crystal forming the backdrop!
4.8 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm. This is a large, sharp and fine crystal of scheelite, complete all around and with gemmy areas, on muscovite. The scheelite itself measures 4 cm across its longest dimension.
3.9 x 3.3 x 2.1 cm. Scheelite from this classic locality. This is a sharp orange crystal measuring 2.4 cm, on matrix with other partial crystals embedded as well. Ex. Jean Behier and Eric Asselborn Collections.
1.7 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm. A nice, gemmy, translucent thumbnail with yellow-orange color, from this classic old locality. Ex. Jean Behier and Eric Asselborn Collections.
10.4 x 8.4 x 4.2 cm. There are gleaming crystals of arsenopyrite with beautiful saw-tooth edges. There is a very large mound of the rare sulfide stannite; sharp, gemmy quartz prisms; a covering of sparkly calcite; and even a couple of tiny, perfect scheelite crystals.
4.0 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm. This is a cluster of translucent, orange/gold scheelite crystals, all complete and terminated all around - with a bit of accenting muscovite.
2.8 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm. A rare, gemmy, purplish-red scheelite crystal from an uncommon scheelite locality - the Aliste Mine, Inca de Oro, Chile. The sharp, lustrous crystal has excellent, complete all-around form and is a near floater.
6.9 x 4.5 x 1.8 cm. Six scheelites of a superb wet, candy-like luster, on matrix, from Pingwu. They have the best bright golden orange color you could ask for. The largest of the crystals measures 1.8 cm tip-to-tip.
2.6 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm. A 1.3 cm, sharp, gemmy and lustrous, honey-brown scheelite crystal on massive scheelite of the same quality from a remote granitic pegmatite in Argentina. Excellent white fluorescence.
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