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Wulfenite

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Thick blocky psuedocubic lustrous orange wulfenite crystals on dark green almost black mottramite matrix. These were found in 2013 and were quickly snapped up by collectors. They are now only available if they get sold in old collections. I would rate this as a very nice example from this renowned find.

Product details

Species
Wulfenite, MottramiteAbout Wulfenite →
SizeCabinet
Dimensions12.9 x 6.9 x 5.2 cm
Added on09/13/2025
Locality
Mexico, Durango, Ojuela MineRegional guide →

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
01/2026Unknown 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.