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Scheelite & Pyrrhotite

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Scheelite & Pyrrhotite

Ex B Shelton Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Canale della Radice Mines, Calcaferro, Mulina, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.3 × 1.1 cm
Description

Acquired from Siber & Siber, a 1920's thumbnail specimen of scheelite crystal, dipyramidal and bright orange on colour on calcite and associated with near black bladed pyrhotite crystals

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

Pyrrhotite

Formula: 
Fe1-xS (x = 0 to 0.17)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
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