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Ferberite

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Beautiful tufts of perfectly formed black and shiny ferberite blades on a thin matrix.

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Species
FerberiteAbout Ferberite →
Added on11/10/2024
Locality
China, Hunan, Yaogangxian MineRegional guide →

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Ferberite
Mineral guide
Learn about Ferberite
iron-rich wolframite with stout blade-like prisms and deep black luster; forms in hydrothermal tin-tungsten deposits; prized on quartz or fluorite.
Ferberite
Regional guide
Ferberite from Yaogangxian Mine, China
from the Yaogangxian Mine has the kind of stark, architectural presence that made the locality famous among modern Chinese mineral collectors: black, metallic, striated blades standing against white quartz, creamy dolomite, or translucent to purple fluorite. On the best pieces, the ferberite is not merely an accessory to Yaogangxian fluorite; it is the structural spine of the specimen—dense, lustrous, sharply bladed, and often dramatically upright.