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Wulfenite

Unknown Owner
Glassy transparent yellow wulfenite crystals sit on green botryoidal mimetite. Perched on the edges of the wulfenite blades lustrous calcite crystals can be seen. Very minimal damage to minor crystals around the periphery. This likely came out 1970’s. From the collection of Dennis Novak.

Product details

Species
Wulfenite, MimetiteAbout Wulfenite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions8.5 x 5.5 x 2.8 cm
Added on12/20/2024
Locality
Mexico, Durango, Ojuela MineRegional guide →

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
09/2025Unknown OwnerNot disclosed
—DanZ RockshopNot 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 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.