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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: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 5.2 × 2.7 cm
Description

Specimen from this locality have most times the same problem; only one side is lustrous or luster is only along the edges. But not so here. All crystals show exceptional luster on all faces. The crystals are up to 8 mm on edges. The specimen represents the very best colour that we know from this famous mining area. The contrast to light matrix is very attractive. No significant demages to report.

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