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Scheelite & Grossular

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Scheelite & Grossular

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Description
Locality: 
Los Santos Tungsten Deposit, Los Santos, Salamanca, Castile & León, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm
Weight: 
32.00gr
Description

Interesting specimen from a little-known deposit, the piece contains beige garnets in a granatite matrix, among which there are small traces of scheelite only distinguishable by the application of short-wave ultraviolet light, and that is when several light blue spots are observed as can be seen in the last photos.

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

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Akhtaragda River mouth (Achtaragda River mouth), Vilyui River Basin (Vilui River Basin; Wilui River Basin), Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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