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Wulfenite & Mimetite

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Wulfenite & Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
San Francisco Mine, Cerro Prieto, Cucurpe Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.6 × 4.6 × 3.5 cm
Description

Transparent, lustrous, golden-yellow, windowpane Wulfenite crystals are richly and aesthetically strewn on botryoidal, Mimetite-covered matrix on this fine specimen from the famous San Francisco Mine of Sonora, Mexico. The Wulfenite is sharp edged as well and has partially beveled edges.  This is a very good specimen in very good condition.

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
Wendel Minerals

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