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Wulfenite

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Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
San Vito Quarry, Ercolano, Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm
Description

specimen with some nice yellow bi-pyramidal crystals of wulfenite on matrix, the wulfenite is extremely rara (found only one time) for the locality.

c. 2794

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

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