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MD-120005
Wolframite
Tae Hwa Mine (Taehwa Mine; Dae Hwa Mine; Taewha Mine; Tong Wha Mine; Tae Wha Mine), Neungam-ri (Neung Am-ri; Noungam-ri), Angseong-myeon, Chungju (Chung Won Kum; Chung-ju), Chungch
Small Cabinet, 5.7 x 4.6 x 2.4 cm
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A STRIKING and RARE specimen of a sharp, saw tooth mountain range of highly lustrous, striated, parallel-growth, jet-black wolframite crystals from the very famous Taewha Mine of Korea. Wolframite is essentially unknown from this famous locality, which at one time, was considered to produce the world's finest scheelites. Ex. George Feist Collection.