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Wulfenite

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Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
Erupción Mine, Los Lamentos, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.5 × 6 × 5.5 cm
Description

Typical combination from the Erupción Mine in Los Lamentos: Blocky orange colored wulfenite crystals encrusted by a thin layer of endlichite, which has partly been removed. The excavated wulfenite crystals have an uneven etched-looking surface.

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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