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Wulfenite

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Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
Pardo Prospect, Henderson County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a single, elongated wulfenite crystal on quartz matrix. This is the only reported locality in NC for wulfenite and specimens are exceedingly rare. The locality is long closed and perhaps 10-15 specimens are known to exist. One of the rarest minerals from North Carolina. If you collect wulfenite localities this is a real rarity!

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

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