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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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  • 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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    (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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    (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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  • letters in "Vanadium" (such as Nevada, Utah, and Montana). The village of Scheelite, located closer to the Pine Creek Mine, was another company town for the...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Monazite also shares many structural similarities with; zircon, xenotime, scheelite, anhydrite, barite, and rhabdophane. Monazite sand from Brazil was first...
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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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    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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    aragonite, opal, apatite, chalcedony, corundum (ruby and sapphire), scheelite, selenite, smithsonite, sphalerite, sodalite. The first person to observe...
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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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    the orange fluorescence of zircon. Powellite (calcium molybdate) and scheelite (calcium tungstate) fluoresce intrinsically in yellow and blue, respectively...
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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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  • known by the common name Lemmon's fleabane. It has been found only in Scheelite Canyon on the grounds of Fort Huachuca Military Reservation in Cochise...
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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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    tin and tungsten in the form of wolframite, cassiterite, stannite and scheelite. These are the leading source of copper ore. Porphyry copper deposits...
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  • Srä Schaurteite Sht Shattuckite Sha Sørensenite Sør Straβmannite Sβm Scheelite Sch Shcherbakovite Sbk Sorosite Sor Strelkinite Slk Schertelite She Shcherbinaite...
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    Lac Mine (1934–1953) produced 605,449 ounces of gold, besides producing scheelite. J.M. Wood and W.T. Brown developed the Sturgeon River Gold Mine (1936–1942)...
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  • discovery grounds, it commonly occurs in Uludağ, Turkey, around a metamorphic scheelite deposit near Bursa. It is also associated with the sulfide veinlets around...
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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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    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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    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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    SR 116 east – Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge ​ 52.5 84.5 Nevada Scheelite Mine Road (SR 839 south) ​ 60.731 97.737 Dixie Valley Road Former SR 121...
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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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    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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