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Wulfenite & Mottramite

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Wulfenite & Mottramite

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 3 × 1.8 cm
Description

A fine combination piece of pale bright yolk yellow tabular wulfenite, accompanied by green botryoidal mottramite. The whole specimen is partly scattered with small rhombs of calcite,- so also the edges of the wulfenite. A fine, mostly undamaged and contrastful specimen in very good shape.

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

Mottramite

Formula: 
PbCu(VO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.40
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, England, UK
Wendel Minerals

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