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Wulfenite with Willemite from Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona

 
Wulfenite with Willemite from Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona

Wulfenite with Willemite from Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona

Wulfenite with Willemite from Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona

Wulfenite with Willemite from Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Wulfenite with Willemite from Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona

DESCRIPTION:No. 71287
Mineral:Wulfenite with Willemite
Locality:Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona
Description:Lustrous transparent orange wulfenite crystal intergrown with gray-to-white finely crystallized willemite that fluoresces brightly under SW UV illumination. The non-fluorescent part of the matrix is calcite. Collected ca. 1980
Overall Size:3.5x3.5x1.5 cm
Crystals:micro to 16 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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