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Wulfenite

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Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 3.6 × 1.8 cm
Description

Awesome matrix specimen from Mexico featuring dozens of lustrous and well defined crystals of wulfenite nicely placed on dark mother rock. They have a deep satturated orange colour and a very fine visual appearence in person.

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