Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Scheelite & Muscovite

Views:
Watches:
VCV152223

Scheelite & Muscovite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Pingwu Mine, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu County, Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 7 × 5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

A gemmy, lustrous and well formed scheelite crystal lies partly embedded in muscovite matrix. The colour of the crystal is a vivid and bright orange.

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

Muscovite

Formula: 
KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Vic's Vugh Minerals