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Wulfenite

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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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A delightful and very fine small cabinet specimen of well crystallised Wulfenite from the famous Red Cloud mine in La Paz County, Arizona, USA. It is useful to note that specimens are often labelled as Yuma County, however, in 1983 Yuma county was divided into two counties, Yuma and La Paz, with Red Cloud mine falling into the latter. This is a typical situation (or dilemma!) in topographical mineralogy, so present day labelling is a matter of choice to the modern collector. This example displays excellent, barley sugar orange Wulfenite crystals with a bright lustre measuring to 1.7 cm, which densely cover a manganese-iron oxide and Calcite matrix. Red Could mine is a true American classic and so too is this superb characteristic specimen.

Product details

Species
WulfeniteAbout Wulfenite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions5.5 x 7.3 x 3.0 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
USA, Arizona, Red Cloud MineRegional guide →
SKUCC14984

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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.