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MD-237618
Scheelite, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz)
Cinovec / Zinnwald (Cinvald), Erzgebirge; Krusne Hory Mts, Saxony & Usti Region (Bohemia; Bohmen; Boehmen), Germany & Czech Republic
Cabinet, 10.3 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm
Ex. British Museum of Natural History; Dennis Mullane
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A fine cabinet specimen of lustrous, brown, pyramidal scheelite crystals to 3 mm richly sprinkled on all sides of a glassy and lustrous, doubly terminated smoky quartz crystal. This old-time specimen is from historic Zinnwald, on the Czech side of the fabled Erzgebirge. This piece is nearly pristine. The scheelites have the typical, super-white fluorescence of scheelite. Ex. British Museum and Mullane Collections.