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Wulfenite & Baryte

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Wulfenite & Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
San Francisco Mine, Cerro Prieto, Cucurpe Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14.2 × 10.1 × 6.5 cm
Description

Great combination and contrast on this one – white blades, very glossy and sharp on intense colored Wulfenite with tiny spheres of orange Mimetite which partly covers dark matrix. The Wulfenites show thin tabular habit, all crystals are sharp, of high translucency and show this intense orange color. Also both minerals are very fragile there is surprisingly no damage!

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

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White