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Wulfenite

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Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
Ahmad Abad Mine, Yazd Province, Iran
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 3.8 × 3.3 cm
Description

This is a very attractive sample from a relatively small discovery in 2014. Amadabad is a historic mine, history goes back about 250 to 300 years. A small team of local geologists an mineralogists was able to rediscover the old shefts and to extract these wonderful specimens before the shefts colapsed again. The discovery was published in Mineralienwelt Magazine (Issue 5, 2015). The particular specimens shows intense orange, free-standing crystals on snowy white matrix.

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