Classic Minerals
Wulfenite
$750.00 €621 £560.00 approx. This specimen is priced in US dollars, all other prices are approximate.
ID:
CC5211
Fine bright zoned apricot-orange to mildly burnt-orange crystals of Wulfenite, from the Los Lamentos area in Mexico. Crystals of Wulfenite measuring to 8 mm display a blocky habit, with developed pyramid faced truncated by pinacoid terminations, on a classic white-grey Calcite matrix coating a dense, well indurated grey limestone. It is the larger Wulfenite crystals which are blocky and colour zoned, all are like a three-tiered sandwich of alternating parallel bands of either light-dark-light apricot or dark-light-dark apricot. The smaller crystals are typically bi-pyramidal with truncated pinacoids. The contrast of the bright glassy lustre of the Wulfenite against creamy-white Calcite blades with a satin lustre is delightful. A great Wulfenite from Los Lamentos.