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Wulfenite with calcite, 1.3 cm, from the Red Cloud mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Jeff Scovil photo.

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Species

Wulfenite, CalciteAbout Wulfenite →

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Dimensions1.3 cm

Added on02/13/2026

Locality

USA, Arizona, Red Cloud MineRegional guide →

Publications

Mineralogical Record Mineral Collections In American Northeast page 119

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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 Red Cloud Mine, Arizona, USA

Red Cloud wulfenite is the Arizona classic by which red wulfenite is still judged: lustrous, fiery orange-red to rose-red tablets of Pb(MoO4), typically poised on dark gossan, brecciated quartz, fluorite, or calcite-rich matrix. The best crystals have the combination serious collectors prize most—saturated color, high luster, sharp tetragonal form, translucency to transparency, and a certain improbable poise: thin square plates standing upright like red glass panes in a desert fissure.