Call number:
D62 (22)
Classification:
Tungstates
Translated title:
Scheelite and Quartz
Place of origin:
Zinnwald (Altenberg) / Saxony, Germany
Depositional environment:
Contact metamorphic tactites, high temperature hydrothermal veins and greisens, granitic pegmatites; alluvial deposits.
Description:
A primary mineral commonly found as a component of contact-metamorphic tactite; in high-temperature hydrothermal veins and greisen; in granitic pegmatites and medium-temperature hydrothermal veins; in alluvial deposits.
Chemical formula:
CaWO4 and SiO2
Crystal system:
Tetragonal
Crystal schema:
Dipyramidal
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