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Wulfenite With Aragonite

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Wulfenite With Aragonite

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Description
Locality: 
Los Lamentos, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.5 × 2 cm
Description

I have been specialising in collecting Mexican minerals for nearly 20 years. Very rarely have I come across the association of wulfenite with aragonite. This is a neat little specimen of extremly hard to obtain material. 

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

Aragonite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Gallo river, Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Peter Crozier Minerals