Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Wulfenite Linarite & Pyromorphite

Views:
Watches:
BCK700616

Wulfenite Linarite & Pyromorphite

Seller's collection

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Redmond Mine, Waterville Lake, Haywood County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 4.1 × 2.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with vugs and fracture surface hosting green clusters of small pyromorphite crystals and flattened radial sprays of linarite. Also associated are several tiny crystals of wulfenite. Wulfenite is extremely rare in NC, with only two reported localities listed. This is a new find in NC, and the locality continues to produce interesting specimens. 

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

Linarite

Formula: 
PbCu(SO4)(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.BC.65
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Linares, Linares-La Carolina District, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain

Pyromorphite

Formula: 
Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Zschopau, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps