Drusy green crystals of pyromorphite on quartz. One orange tabular wulfenite (not in photo). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 140 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tabular to blocky yellow to orange to brown wulfenite crystals with black mottramite. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny purple cubic fluorite crystals on pale blue chrysocolla. Yellow is wulfenite. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single zoned vanadinite on blocky orange wulfenite. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red vanadinite on black mottramite on one side. Orange wulfenite and yellow mimetite on the other. Greenish-striped crystals of adamite? Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images (wulfenite), 64 images (vanadinite) and 65 (mimetite). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Orange and yellow wulfenite crystals with red vanadinite, deep brown to black mottramite, pale yellow mimetite, and tiny purple fluorites. The larger wulfenite crystals are orange, and there is some zoning evident. Ex Scott Braley. First photo: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Second photo: Width of view...
Olive-green fornacite with orange-red wulfenite. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin orange plates of wulfenite with yellow-green rounded pyromorphite, and tiny sharp olive-green fornacite crystals on bluish-white halloysite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tabular yellow wulfenite crystals with green pyromorphite in a cavity in quartz, Obtained from Richard Bell 9/2005. Width of view 2.6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown wulfenite crystals, some with hoppered faces. Ex Diederik Visser 6/2005. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thick tabular orange-brown wulfenite crystals. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange wulfenite crystals with spherical green mimetite and red minium. Ex Diederik Visser 6/2005. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 56 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small orange, yellow, and greenish wulfenite crystals with even smaller pyrite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic wulfenite with smaller acicular mimetite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
A single blocky orange crystal of wulfenite with pale yellow mimetite and colourless fluorite crystals on a bed of quartz. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pseudo-octahedral orange crystals with white barite. Ex David Vince. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 63 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow crystals in a variety of habits. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale yellowish-green stacked pseudo-octahedral crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Wulfenite with two different habits on either side of the specimen. On one side, thin tabular crystals and on the other, blocky tapering prismatic double-terminated crystals. Collected by Jack and Marty Crawford in 2005. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Three 5mm specimens, mounted side by side, with tiny yellow-green molybdofornacite crystals, orange-yellow wulfenite crystals and chrysocolla. The molybdofornacite from Dulcinea has been identified with semiquantitative and quantitative analysis by Dr. Jochen Schlater (curator of Hamburg Mineral Museum, Germany). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the...
Platy yellow crystals. Width of specimen 30mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tabular orange wulfenite with a brown core (sandwich). Shown backlit. Width of view 17.25mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Extreme closeup of a wulfenite crystal at the limit of what can be achieved with my equipment. This image has not been cropped. Width of view 2mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A 1mm wide yellow wulfenite crystal on a goethite matrix. A few other crystals occur on other parts of the specimen. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Five specimens. The one photographed has parallel growth cerussite with “pancake” pyromorphite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An interesting paragenesis. I think what has happened is that malachite was replaced by blue chrysocolla, then wulfenite crystals formed on that, then a later coating of paler chrysocolla covered the lot! Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9.5mm. Stack of 125 images. Click on the image below for...
Malachite after azurite and orange-yellow wulfenite crystals and tiny olive green fornacite crystals on a goethite matrix. Width of specimen 43mm. Stack of 182 images. Depth of view about 25mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange tabular wulfenite crystals on yellow pyromorphite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 120 images.
A single orange wulfenite with tiny green atacamite on a coated earlier version of atacamite and quartz. There are other wulfenite crystals on the specimen. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1993 on a Mineralogical Society field trip.
Butterscotch tabular crystals, largest 15mm across. Five views of the one specimen, each taken with iPhone 11 Pro Max plus Struman macro lens.
Colourless cubes of fluorite with thin purple edges, colourless fluorite with hematite inclusions/staining, purple cubes, yellow tabular wulfenite, minor white barite. Specimen is 50x36x30mm. Second image is under shortwave ultraviolet light.
Stalactite of tabular orange wulfenite crystals 25mm in longest direction.
Sharp green crystals of molybdofornacite on tabular yellow wulfenite with cream zoned hexagonal pyromorphite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 37 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp orange-red tabular/platey crystals. Locality likely Jianshan Mine, although not labelled as such. Labelled as Guangxi, China – no wulfenite listed in Mindat in this region. Recent similar specimens from seller are noted as Xinjiang not Guangxi. Video best viewed full screen.
Orange tabular wulfenite crystals with yellow mimetite on pale pinkish crystalline barite. Video best viewed full screen.
Sharp orange wulfenite blades, some with a dusting of white calcite on one face. Video best viewed full screen.
Yellow bypyramidal crystals of wulfenite with green mimetite balls. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Keith Williams, Williams Minerals.
Bright orange mimetite surrounds glassy orange wulfenite crystals.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Graham Lee.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Other unidentified species present, Al Wilkins
Labelled as Golden Cross Claim, Mildren-Steppe Mine, Tucson Micromount Symposium
A few tiny wulfenite crystals amongst white bladed calcite crystals on blue hemimorphite. Won at the Tucson dinner silent auction, 2015.
From Greg Dainty: This piece was collected, and labeled, by Norman Robinson, from an old exploration trench. Its hard to figure out exactly whats going on here, there is what appears to be chrysocolla replacing malachite, some malachite, some non replacement chrysocolla, as for the yellowish white mineral on the...
ex Hatfield Goudey Collection. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Harry Critchley
ex Jack Leach Collection
Ex Mike Knew Collection. Mike Knew is the owner of Top Gem Minerals in Tucson, Arizona.
Vanadinite pseudo (epimorph) after wulfenite. Collected ca 1978
