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Wulfenite With Vanadinite

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Wulfenite With Vanadinite

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Description
Locality: 
Ahmad Abad Mine, Yazd Province, Iran
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 2.5 × 3.2 cm
Weight: 
21.00gr
Description

Cluster of lenticular crystals with a complex structure of orange color up to 12 mm in size covered with candid white aragonite balls in turn covered with a light felt of Plattnerite needles and microcrystals of Vanadinite up to 1 mm.

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

Vanadinite

Formula: 
Pb5(VO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Zimapán, Mun. de Zimapán, Hidalgo, Mexico