Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Wulfenite

Views:
Watches:
PDM850780

Wulfenite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Aïcha bel Lahcen, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 6.2 × 3.1 cm
Weight: 
71.00gr
Description

Highly lustrous and well defined tabular crystals of wulfenite that present two different colourations, from yellow to orange, on a limonite matrix. The rear side is also partially covered by wulfenite crystals.

Even though wulfenites from Morocco are common, this locality (Aïcha Bel Lahcen) is certainly less known, and it is scarcely represented in collections.

I found these specimens in September 2015.

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

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps