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Wulfenite

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William Severance
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Wulfenite, 3.3 cm, from the Red Cloud mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Collected by Edwin P. Over, Jr. in 1938, to Arthur Montgomery, to Schortmann’s Minerals, to Bentley’s Minerals, to Carl Francis, to Robert Wenzel, to Mrs. M. E. Wenzel, to Dan and Jill Weinrich (1999); Jeff Scovil photo.

Product details

Species
WulfeniteAbout Wulfenite →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions3.3 cm
Added on02/13/2026
Locality
USA, Arizona, Red Cloud MineRegional guide →
Publications
  • Mineralogical Record Mineral Collections In American Northeast page 332

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
—Mrs. M. E. WenzelNot disclosed
—Robert WenzelNot disclosed
—Carl FrancisNot disclosed
—Bentley’s MineralsNot disclosed
—Schortmann’s MineralsNot disclosed

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Wulfenite
Mineral guide
Learn about Wulfenite
brilliant warm colors and square crystals; prized for rarity of pristine specimens and famed localities like Red Cloud, Touissit, Ojuela.
Wulfenite
Regional guide
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.