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pretty sure that the black is due to included manganese oxides. other localities show dark brown or near black wulfenites (San Francisco, Tiger, 79 Mine) but the Glove had the best for lustrous sheer black (although i don't think the crystals ever got more than about 1cm.
here's a nice one i collected in 1985 with Dave Shannon.
bob
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Mineral:
Wulfenite
Locality:
Glove Mine, Glove Mine group, Devil's Cash Box Ridge, Cottonwood Canyon, Amado, Tyndall District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
Joined: 13 Nov 2011
Posts: 638
Location: Monroeville PA
Posted: Aug 26, 2016 15:17 Post subject: Re: Favourite Wulfenites?
Les - ooooo-la-la - that Red Cloud is a real gem - as is the calcite from Magma you posted on the other thread.
And - one more of my favorite AZ wulf localities - the Finch Mine (aka the Barking Spider - although for "some reason" this is not a formal locality on the list!!). These are covered with a quartz druze and sometimes hemimorphite. Seems like very few of these got out of AZ.
My generic answer to Tobi's original post: my favorite Wulf locality? - ARIZONA!!!
bob
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Mineral:
Quartz over Wulfenite
Locality:
Finch Mine, Reagan claims, Keystone Gulch, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona, USA
Posted: Aug 26, 2016 17:10 Post subject: Re: Favourite Wulfenites?
bob kerr wrote:
and - one more of my favorite AZ wulf localities - the Finch Mine (aka the Barking Spider - although for "some reason" this is not a formal locality on the list!!). these are covered with quartz druz and sometimes hemimorphite. seems like very few of these got out of AZ.
Well, a few came out of Arizona ;-) Not among my favourites, but they look interesting somehow ...
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Mineral:
Wulfenite
Locality:
Finch Mine, Reagan claims, Keystone Gulch, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona, USA
Dimensions:
Specimen size 7 cm
Description:
Ex my collection
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Mineral:
Wulfenite
Locality:
Finch Mine, Reagan claims, Keystone Gulch, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona, USA
Dimensions:
Specimen sizes 4-7 cm
Description:
Collection Mineralogical Museum Marburg (my photo)
Joined: 06 Dec 2007
Posts: 372
Location: Gilbert, AZ
Posted: Aug 26, 2016 17:13 Post subject: Re: Favourite Wulfenites?
Thank you Bob. Just go up to the picture of the first Red Cloud in this string and that is the color of ours on quartz. I am curious why the color did not translate. It is even a bit muted on the Rowley mimetite vug I posted but not anywhere near as bad as on the wulfenite.
It was both a good day and a bad day when I collected the calcite. Good that I was able to collect about ten specimens but bad because the miners had destroyed crystals up to 10cm.
Posted: May 01, 2017 01:17 Post subject: Re: Favourite Wulfenites?
A small, but fine Medieval mine near Haiming, Tyrol, Austria, hosts a small number of fine wulfenites. These are my favourites as I live nearby and have the chance to visit it every time I want. The wulfies are not very special and mostly small, but the locality produced only few of them.
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Mineral:
Wulfenite
Locality:
Haiming, Imst District, North Tyrol, Tyrol/Tirol, Austria
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