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Wulfenite

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Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
San Francisco Mine, Cerro Prieto, Cucurpe Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4.4 × 3.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

A superb wulfenite from this mine which features large bladed orange crystals set around matrix. There is the inevitable broken crystals which is always hard to know if this is due to contacting or post mine handling.

However the largest crystals are undamaged. There also seems to be quite a bit of orange coloured micro mimetite crystals.

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
Gondwana Minerals