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What does scheelite mean?

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  1. (mineralogy) A mineral composed of calcium tungstate, with the chemical formula CaWO4; an important tungsten ore.
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Some minerals that may exhibit fluorescence are fluorite, scheelite, calcite, scapolite, willemite, and autunite.
It occurs most commonly in the minerals scheelite and wolframite.
It may be associated with a wide variety of other minerals including cerussite, anglesite, raspite, pyromorphite, mimetite, and scheelite.
Interestingly, most auriferous quartz veins around the Bourlamaque pluton and along the Cadillac break contain some scheelite.
The common occurrence of scheelite rather than ferberite is believed to reflect lithologic differences in host rocks.
It has been produced in Queensland and from wolframite and scheelite deposits located on King Island in the Bass Strait.

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