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Wulfenite & Mimetite

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Wulfenite & Mimetite

Ex Hugh A Ford

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Description
Locality: 
Los Lamentos, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.2 × 6 × 4.1 cm
Description

An old-time specimen from the 1960's.

Group of tabular crystals very sharp, with a nice green-yellow color and good luster. The wulfenite blades were overgrown by acicular mimetite. Several transparent calcite rhombs are sprinkled over the specimen.

Very clean of damage, there only a couple of wulfenites damaged, although are difficult to see.

Very beautiful under magnification!

Ex. Hugh A. Ford

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

Mimetite

Formula: 
Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Treue Freundschaft Mine, Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
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