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Scheelite

A.E. Foote and Dan Behnke collection

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Description
Locality: 
Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 3.1 × 1.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a miniature sample with vugs hosting rich crystals of scheelite on altered ferberite from this obscure South Dakota locality. Has old A.E. Foote mineral label and was collected around 1910! Comes with three original slides scanned and shown here. 

This sample is from the collection of Dan Behnke, long-time friend, micromounter and prodigious photographer. I am pleased to be able to offer selections from his large collection, many of which are illustrated specimens in Rocks & Minerals, The Mineralogiocal Record, Photo Atlas of Minerals and many other publications. All samples from his meticulously catalogued collection will come with his original index card with all notes, photography annotations and other pertinent information, as well as any slides Dan may have taken of the sample with publication notes and date the photo was made.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Scheelite

Formula: 
Ca(WO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bispbergs Klack, Säter, Dalarna, Sweden

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