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Gold With Scheelite & Pyrite

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Gold With Scheelite & Pyrite

ex Chr. Rewitzer, Germany
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Description
Locality: 
Browns Flat, Mount Baldy, Calaveras County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 6.1 × 2.7 cm
Weight: 
37.60gr
Description

Unusual combination of native gold, orange-colored scheelite and pyrite in white quartz matrix. The scheelite shows the typical white fluorescence under shortwave UV (pic 4). Two sharp, idiomorphous cubic pyrite crystals of appr. 2 mm size are also present (see pics 7 & 8).

A fine and rare combination specimen from California!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gold

Formula: 
Au
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

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