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Wulfenite, Mottramite

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Wulfenite on mottramite, 9.8 cm, from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Ex Jason New collection; Joe Budd photo.

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Species

Wulfenite, MottramiteAbout Wulfenite →

SizeSmall Cabinet

Dimensions9.8 cm

Added on02/13/2026

Locality

Mexico, Durango, Ojuela MineRegional guide →

Publications

Mineralogical Record Mineral Collecting In Texas page 89

Known provenance

Date	Collector	Acquisition price
—	Jason New	Not disclosed

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Wulfenite

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brilliant warm colors and square crystals; prized for rarity of pristine specimens and famed localities like Red Cloud, Touissit, Ojuela.

Wulfenite

Wulfenite from Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico

Ojuela wulfenite belongs to that small group of mineral specimens whose locality identity is visible at a glance. Instead of the broad, glassy, orange “windowpanes” of many southwestern U.S. classics, the Mapimí material often has a more sculptural, bristling character: tapered yellow to orange-brown crystals, spear-like prisms, thick tablets, and eccentric “sandwich” crystals in which a brown middle zone is framed by yellow outer growth. On the best pieces, the wulfenite is set against the colors that made Ojuela famous—green mimetite, white calcite, brown limonite and goethite, tobacco-green mottramite, and the rusty gossan of a deeply oxidized lead-silver-zinc deposit.