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Wulfenite & Duftite

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Wulfenite & Duftite

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.1 × 5.7 × 4.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

A very colorful specimen of red brown calcite covered matrix with masses of blue green malachite is covered with bladed crystals of wulfenite in turn covered with duftite.

The highest most prominent wulfenite crystals are only partly covered revealing nice lustrous yellow brown crystals to 15mm beneath.

There is no damage to display crystals save some tiny mousebites, there are some extraction breaks to the edge wulfenites.

All in all a super aesthetic display specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wulfenite

Formula: 
Pb(MoO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

Duftite

Formula: 
PbCu(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia

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