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Mindat Short Description

Powellite-Scheelite Series.

A primary mineral commonly found as a component of contact-metamorphic tactite; in high-temperature hydrothermal veins and greisen; in granitic pegmatites and medium-temperature hydrothermal veins; in alluvial deposits.

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

von Leonhard K C (1821) Scheelit, in Handbuch der Oryktognosie, Mohr and Winter (Heidelberg, Germany) 594-596

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

Ca(WO₄)

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

CaW⁶⁺O₄

Additional References

• http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/scheelite.pdf

• http://www.webmineral.com/data/Scheelite.shtml