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Wulfenite

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Wulfenite crystal, 2 cm, from the Old Yuma mine, Pima County, Arizona, collected in 1970. I put a crowbar in a 1-inch-wide fracture, and when I wiggled it a lot of thumbnail-size crystals came tumbling out.

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SpeciesWulfenite
SizeThumbnail
Dimensions2.0 cm
Added on02/13/2026
LocalityUSA, Arizona, Yuma Mine
Publications
  • Mineralogical Record Self Collected Minerals page 391
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Wendell Wilson

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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 Yuma Mine
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Locality guide
Yuma Mine
Yuma Mine — a classic Arizona locality in the Tucson Mountains, prized for vivid vanadinite and wulfenite in oxidized ore, with notable cerussite and calcite.