15PR25 Quartz, Stolzite on Scheelite
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Sanchez Carrion Prov., La Libertad Dept., Peru
5.7x 3.1x 4.2 cm
$465
An excellent miniature sized specimen of this hard to find material. This one has an stolzite-dusted scheelite octahedron nestled in a quartz cluster, though it is very well exposed and well formed.
I had seen a small group of these at Tucson 2015, and was hoping to get more on this trip. Although the find was small, I was able to come back with a group of pretty good pieces. While these are never especially "sharp", those I saw in Tucson looked especially melted-- the pieces I came back with have well formed scheelites, cleaner (I think) form and a generous coating of the powdery yellow-green stolzite that makes them so eye catching.
In 5 trips to Peru, I was only able to get an example of this material once before-- I was quite happy to have been there at a time close enough to a find to be able to get more.
