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Wulfenite with Mimetite

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A choice miniature displaying lustrous, blocky to oblong, zoned orange Wulfenite crystals surrounded by crystalline, botryoidal light green Mimetite. The Wulfenite crystals measure to 1 cm and are aesthetically distributed over the display face, covering a dark, rusty coloured Limonite matrix. From the Ojuela mine at Mapimi in Mexico, the Wulfenite crystals are particularly attractive, appearing like sharply sliced caramel toffees of light mustard yellow-orange with a deeper apricot orange central zone. Very tasty indeed!

Product details

Species
Wulfenite, MimetiteAbout Wulfenite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions3.2 x 5.7 x 2.7 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
Mexico, Durango, Ojuela MineRegional guide →
SKUCC15027

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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 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.