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Scheelite On Quartz & Calcite

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Scheelite On Quartz & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood, Waratah-Wynyard Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 2.3 × 1.2 cm
Description

A single terminated translucent quartz crystal is decorated drop one side with dozens of purplish brown scheelite crystals and flattened white calcite blades. The Mount Cleveland Tin Mine closed in 1986 and this scheelite specimen is one of the best ever recovered, an uncommon mineral from this defunct locale.

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
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