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Wulfenite

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Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
Purple Passion Mine, Monarch Wash, Yavapai County, Arizona, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 3.4 × 2 cm
Description

Very aerial doubly terminated prismatic crystals of vanadinite of excellent color and good luster on a matrix of breccia. Crystals are present in both sides. The most unusual thing is not only the rare habit but the ragged terminations. Unique!

 

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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