Translucent, extremely lustrous, rich orange, pseudo-octahedral crystals of scheelite, are intergrown, forming an aesthetic specimen. All terminations are present, rarely seen in these beautiful scheelites from China. The largest crystal measures 3.5 cm across. The piece is actually a floater: completely crysatllized, if irregular in growth, even on the backside!

Scheelite from this locale, before the discovery of Chinese material in modern times, was considered by most collectors to be the best of color for the species. Crystals were far and few between, and traded as if they were platinum among sophisticated collectors. This is a large crystal for the locale, bigger than the very few I have seen and handled in the past by quite a bit. Most are on the order of 1 cm or smaller. This is robust in size, form, and has a deeply saturated orange-red color to it. This is a MAJOR locality specimen! ex American Museum of Natural History, by exchange to collector/dealer Lawrence Conklin in the 1980s. Joe Budd photos