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Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
Erupción Mine, Los Lamentos Mountains, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4.5 × 3 cm
Description

One of the first specimens I obtained for my now quite extensive Mexician collection. I acquired it in 1998 and have kept it until now as it is a nice specimen from a less commonly offered Mexician locality. Good coloured reflective blocky crystals up to 0.9 cm on an edge.

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
Peter Crozier Minerals