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Wulfenite

Ex Peter Uerpmann Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Mežica Mines, Mežica, Carinthia Region, Slovenia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 4.7 × 3.6 cm
Description

A good coverage of dipyrimidal wulfenite crystals on all sides of this highly unusual and attractive specimen. I have had a fondness for wulfenite for many years and have seen many but never before in breccia. The sharp component pebbles give the specimen a much more 3 dimential appearance than the images suggest. A very different wulfenite specimen from a less ommon locality. 

 

Condition
Main Display: 
Very good - Some minor marks
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
Provenance

Peter Uerpmann Collection

Fri, 2016-09-30 19:31 -- admin
Some History
Dates: 
1970s- 
2002
Type: 
Collector/Collection
Specialisms: 
Aesthetics, Germany, Tsumeb
About

Peter Uerpmann originally studied mining at Clausthal University of Technology and then followed a career in the German/European Nuclear...

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