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Wulfenite

ex D. Seidel (GER)
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Description
Locality: 
Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, Pima County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.6 × 3.1 cm
Weight: 
66.00gr
Description

Light orange yellow, mostly transparent thin tabular wulfenite crystals on matrix from this less well-known extinct underground Pb-Ag-Cu-Mo-Au-Mn-V mine. Quite some of the crystals are water-clear windowpanes with sharp beveled edges. Some calcite crystals are also present. This mine was intermittently active from the 1880s until 1940.

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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