Scheelite on Quartz (rare from Pakistan)

Item Description

These attractive and rather hard to find Scheelite specimens from Pakistan started coming out in the mid 2000s. There are plenty of colorful minerals found in he high mountains of Pakistan, but they're typically silicates found in pegmatites, and Scheelite is not something that you would expect to see. The various pegmatite and even the "Alpine-type" deposits are not the kind of places that one would expect to find Scheelite, and according to the entry on mindat.org, these Scheelites came out of a pegmatite, which is highly unusual in my experience. This piece is an attractive small cabinet display specimen featuring a few sharp, lustrous, rich orange-red colored, pseudo-octahedral (di-pyramidal tetragonal) crystals measuring up to 8 mm associated with gemmy, colorless, prismatic Quartz crystals. Iron oxide staining can be seen in various spots on the Quartz crystals. The Scheelites are in decent shape, though not totally complete on the edges/back. Like most Scheelites, this one shows a bright blue-white fluorescence under SW UV light.