Scheelite

Unknown Owner

Help improve this recordNo owner is registered for this specimen yet. If it's yours or you know more about it, you can add the owner, provenance, publications and other details.

Known for some quite large (by European standards) crystals of Scheelite (calcium tungstate), Fürstenberg hill in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains) of Saxony, Germany is not renowned for any other well-crystallized species. The area has had a tourist mine - Frisch Glück mine - since the 1920s and it is thought that many good Scheelite crystals were collected there in the late 1800s to early 1900s as other similar specimens have been seen with old dealer labels dating from that period. This a great example from Hans Engelbrecht's collection features a 1 cm wide pale fudge-coloured pyramidal crystal within a small cavity in white Quartz/Fluorite veinstone and is simply documented as from Fürstenberg hill.