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    Scheelite is a calcium tungstate mineral with the chemical formula CaWO4. It is an important ore of tungsten (wolfram). Scheelite is originally named...
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    1781 and first isolated as a metal in 1783. Its important ores include scheelite and wolframite, the latter lending the element its alternative name. The...
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  • The village of Scheelite, located closer to the Pine Creek Mine, was another company town for the mine. The town was named for scheelite, one of the main...
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    (210 mi) southwest of the capital, Vienna. Mittersill is the largest scheelite deposit in Europe, having in 2010 estimated reserves of 6.1 million tonnes...
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    of the Blowpipe (1827). Cronstedt discovered the mineral now known as scheelite in 1751 at Bispberg Klack, later obtaining samples from the Kuhschacht...
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    (29 km) road that runs from the Nevada Scheelite Mine to U.S. Route 50. The road is also known as Nevada Scheelite Mine Road. Prior to the 1976 mass renumbering...
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    mineral between ferberite (Fe2+ rich) and hübnerite (Mn2+ rich). Along with scheelite, the wolframite series are the most important tungsten ore minerals. Wolframite...
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  • economically extracted. The ore minerals of tungsten include wolframite, scheelite, and ferberite. Tungsten is used for making many alloys. Tungsten ore...
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  • color-specific fluorescence. For instance, under short-wave UV light, scheelite, a tungsten ore, fluoresces a bright sky-blue, and willemite, a minor...
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  • Samarskite Sanidine Sapphirine Sarcolite Scapolite Marialite Meionite Scheelite Schizolite Scorodite Selenite Sellaite Senarmontite Sepiolite (Meerschaum)...
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    phosphate, and copper, as well as mineral reserves like gold, emeralds, scheelite, magnetite, vermiculite, silicon, and mica. Commodities such as black...
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    Monazite also shares many structural similarities with; zircon, xenotime, scheelite, anhydrite, barite, and rhabdophane. Monazite sand from Brazil was first...
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  • Kaijū-iro no Shima (かいじゅう色の島, lit. 'Monster-Colored Island' or 'Scheelite-Colored Island') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru...
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    diamond simulant. Due to the scarcity of natural gem-quality scheelite, synthetic scheelite is much more likely to simulate it than diamond. A similar case...
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    ratios; as a result, it is considered to be crystallographically similar to scheelite (CaWO4). Wulfenite is classed by a pyramidal-hemihedral (tetragonal dipyramidal)...
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    approximately 32 km south east of Currie. It was a thriving mining town where scheelite was extracted from an open-cut mine until 1974 when two underground mines...
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    minerals include pyrite, chalcopyrite, quartz, anhydrite, fluorite, and scheelite. Important deposits include the disseminated porphyry molybdenum deposits...
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  • Sauconite Sborgite Scapolite (a group of silicate minerals) Schäferite Scheelite Schizolite Schmiederite Schoepite Schorl (black tourmaline) Schreibersite...
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    and a specific gravity of 4.25. It forms a solid solution series with scheelite (calcium tungstate, CaWO4). It has refractive index values of nω=1.974...
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    with alkalis to produce soluble tungstates. Alternatively, CaWO4, or scheelite, is allowed to react with HCl to produce tungstic acid, which decomposes...
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    Another English translation was published by Dr Leonard Dobbin, in 1931. Scheelite Scheele's Green Pharmacist Pharmacy Pneumatic chemistry List of independent...
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  • carbonates rich in iron (Fe) and contains pyroxene, scheelite, plagioclase and locally magnetite. The scheelite is generally fine-grained, less than 1mm in size...
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  • (IUPAC: tricalcium germanium(IV) hexahydroxide disulfate trihydrate) Scheelite (scheelite: 1821) 7.GA.05 [222] [223] [224] (IUPAC: calcium tungstate) Schertelite...
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    aragonite, opal, apatite, chalcedony, corundum (ruby and sapphire), scheelite, selenite, smithsonite, sphalerite, sodalite. The first person to observe...
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    The mineral has tetragonal crystal symmetry and the same structure as scheelite (calcium tungstate, CaWO4), but can be metamict (amorphous) due to radiation...
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    528 nm – – Lamp – CaSiO3:Pb,Mn Orange-Pink 615 nm 83 nm – Lamp CaWO4 (Scheelite) Blue 417 nm – – Lamp – CaWO4:Pb Blue 433 nm/466 nm 111 nm – Lamp Wide...
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    P4 I4 83–88 Tetragonal dipyramidal 4/m C4h 4* [2,4+] centrosymmetric scheelite, wulfenite, leucite P4/m, P42/m, P4/n, P42/n I4/m, I41/a 89–98 Tetragonal...
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    Magnetite: Fe3O4 Molybdenite: MoS2 Pentlandite: (Fe,Ni)9S8 Pyrite: FeS2 Scheelite: CaWO4 Sphalerite: ZnS Uraninite: UO2 Wolframite: (Fe,Mn)WO4 Chemistry...
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    Scheele discovered that a new acid, tungstic acid, could be made from scheelite (at the time named tungsten). Scheele and Torbern Bergman suggested that...
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    37: 679–690. Howard, W.R. (2016). "Surveys of recovered Visible Gold, scheelite & metallic mineral grains and Heavy Minerals in bulk stream silts 2013–2015...
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