Crystal Prospect

WULFENITE with fluorescent FLUORITE, ARAGONITE - Red Cloud Mine, Arizona, USA

Orange-red tabular Wulfenite crystals on gossan matrix with pale-green SW fluorescing Willemite, white SW fluorescent Aragonite, weak dark red SW fluorescing Calcite, and blue SW and strong blue LW fluorescent Fluorite.

ex Robert Drayer - ex Franklin Mineral Museum

from Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA

classic locality, now on a private property

Measures approximately 2.5 x 2 x 1 inch, 3.10 oz / 63 x 51 x 25 mm, 88g

Item # A0020115

SOLD

To show the fluorescent response the specimen was illuminated using 6 watt 254nm (Short Wave) / 366nm (Long Wave) UVGL-58 lamp (you need a proper UV light source to observe the fluorescence, more powerful lamp = brighter response).