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Wulfenite & Baryte

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Wulfenite & Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Maoniuping Mine, Mianning County, Liangshan, Sichuan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 3 × 2.9 cm
Description

An excellent specimen of wulfenite on barite from the finds at the ​Maoniuping Mine about 15 years ago.   The photos really tell the story.   Beautiful orange bipyramidal wulfenite crystals on crystals of white bladed baryte.   Displays well on both sides.

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

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

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