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Wulfenite & Hydrozincite

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Wulfenite & Hydrozincite

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Description
Locality: 
Santa María del Oro, El Oro Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 5.5 × 4 cm
Description

Very rare combination of glossy, transparent, orange wulfenite crystals on a lawn of acicular, radiating white hydrozincite tufts on dark red iron-oxides matrix.

Very good wulfenite crystals - so transparent you can see the hydrozincite tufts through it.

Only a few with minor edge wear.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wulfenite

Formula: 
Pb(MoO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

Hydrozincite

Formula: 
Zn5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

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