fluorescent SCHEELITE - Furniss Mine, North Carolina, USA

Bright blue-white SW fluorescent Scheelite in Quartz and carbonate matrix, with some weak LW response.

from Furniss Mine, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA

specimens from this old and now closed locality are rare

Measures approximately 3 x 2.5 x 1.5 inch, 11.53 oz / 76 x 63 x 38 mm, 327g

this specimen is featured on mindat, minID: ANC-37Q

Price: 500.00 USD

Item # A0090316     #11

To show the fluorescent response the specimen was illuminated using 6 watt 254nm (Short Wave) / 366nm (Long Wave) UVGL-58 lamp (you need a proper UV light source to observe the fluorescence, more powerful lamp = brighter response).

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