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Wulfenite

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Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm
Description

Bright orange dipyramidal wulfenite crystals of wulfenite collected in the 1990's from theKintore Opencut Mine dumps. Wulfenite is a rare species for Broken Hill and these crystals are from the second only find of this species at Broken Hill, the first was in 1890. The matrix is a combination of druzy cerussite and smithsonite

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
Earthstones Australia

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