Scheelite with Dolomite, Calcite - image 1
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Scheelite with Dolomite, Calcite

Unknown Owner
A grouping of lustrous pseudo-octahedral scheelite crystals 2.0 cm across on a breccia matrix that is coated with crystallized dolomite. Thin platy white crystals of calcite are scattered throughout. This is crystallized completely all around with no points of attachment. In good condition.

Product details

Species
Calcite, Dolomite, ScheeliteAbout Calcite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions10.0 x 5.0 x 2.0 cm
Added on02/12/2025
Locality
China, Hunan, Yaogangxian MineRegional guide →

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
05/2026Unknown Owner$335.00
—Weinrich MineralsNot disclosed

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Calcite
Mineral guide
Learn about Calcite
diverse shapes, colors, and optical quirks; widely available yet scarce elite pieces from Elmwood and Charcas drive collecting value and display.
Calcite
Regional guide
Calcite from Yaogangxian Mine, China
from the Yaogangxian Mine is not merely an accessory carbonate on famous Chinese fluorites; at its best it is one of the visual signatures of the locality. Collectors most often encounter it as crisp white to pale pink “poker-chip” aggregates, bladed rosettes, stacked pagoda-like sprays, steep scalenohedra, or flattened rhombohedral groups perched on fluorite, quartz, ferberite, scheelite, muscovite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and other Yaogangxian species. The appeal lies in contrast: delicate, pearly calcite set against glassy purple or blue-green fluorite; pink manganese-bearing calcite on sparkling quartz; or a single water-clear calcite twin rising from metallic black ferberite.