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Wulfenite with Mimetite

Unknown Owner

Lustrous pseudo-cubic crystals of caramel colored wulfenite to 0.4 cm in size on matrix with mimetite. Attractive and in good condition with very minimal micro-chipping present.

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Species

Wulfenite, MimetiteAbout Wulfenite →

SizeMiniature

Dimensions4.3 x 2.5 x 1.3 cm

Added on08/22/2025

Locality

Mexico, Durango, Ojuela MineRegional guide →

Known provenance

Date	Collector	Acquisition price
—	Unknown Owner	$30.00
—	Weinrich Minerals	Not disclosed

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Wulfenite

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brilliant warm colors and square crystals; prized for rarity of pristine specimens and famed localities like Red Cloud, Touissit, Ojuela.

Wulfenite

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.