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Wulfenite

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Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
Los Lamentos, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 4 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

Classic thick tabular wulfenite crystals, that reach 20x16x10 mm in size, contrasting on a matrix of snow white calcite. The orange-yellow colour in very good and the adamantine lustre and stepped faces are amazing.

The associated label shows that Mr. René Virlet bought it from L.Van Wambeke* on May 7th/1972 for 650 BEF. Ex. René Virlet collection.

*Leopold Van Wambeke was a Belgian geologist, who worked in the Ex. Belgian Congo, and named Eylettersite after his wife (Lea Eyletters).

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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