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Wulfenite With Willemite

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Wulfenite With Willemite

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Description
Locality: 
Los Lamentos, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.4 × 3.4 × 2.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.20cm
Weight: 
38.00gr
Description

Elegant small miniature of tabular wulfenite on gossan matrix, associated to white botryoidal willemite. The main wulfenite crystals are mostly transparent and very lustrous. Some damage on the peripheral crystals, the ones in the middle are preserves in mint conditions. The specimen has been preserved - before I purchased it - in cotton, hence the sparce cotton fibers.

Spotted at a UK mineral show a few years ago - quite unexpectedly too.

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

Willemite

Formula: 
Zn2SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AA.05
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vieille Montagne (Altenberg; Kelmisberg), Moresnet, Kelmis, Plombières-Vieille Montagne District (Plombières-Altenberg), Verviers, Liège Province, Belgium

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