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Wulfenite on Quartz

Unknown Owner
This specimen features a large focal crystal of bright orange wulfenite perched nicely on top a contrasting dark grey druzy quartz matrix. . The wulfenite crystal is 2.7cm wide and features a nice right angle. Several smaller bright orange wulfenite crystals are scattered around the base of the dominant central crystal. The color and the luster for this specimen are both superb and represents some of the best available from this famous USA locality.

Product details

Species
WulfeniteAbout Wulfenite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions7.1 x 6.6 cm
Added on03/26/2025
Locality
USA, Arizona, Red Cloud 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 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.