Green Envy Mine, Vulture Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA

A new find of wickenburgite and willemite from the "Green Envy Mine", a new 2024 locality. The wickenburgite fluoresces its typical pink to red under shortwave UV light. The willemite fluoresces bright green under shortwave, yellow under midwave and longwave UV, and shows a long lasting afterglow after UV exposure. On the bottom right corner there ...

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A twinned cerussite presents in the upper right end of this small vug within massive wickenburgite. The edges of at least one individual wickenburgite crystal are apparent in the lower center and bottom of the vug. All id's are visual.

Possible chrysocolla pseudomorphs after unknown precursor phase (light blue-green) on massive to crystalline willemite (light brown in this image but fluorescent green under shortwave UV). Visual IDs. Identities of the mineral and the precursor are unknown.

Translucent brown descloizite on a matrix of massive wickenburgite and quartz. Visual ID. Found near the border of the rhyolite vein and the adjacent basalt wall.

Laumontite crystals occur in the mine at the border of the wickenburgite bearing rhyolite and the surrounding basalt. Visual identification only.

This image was taken under shortwave UV plus a small amount of white light for illumination. The fluorescent pink mineral is wickenburgite, the fluorescent green mineral is willemite, and the non-flourescent orange-colored mineral in the lower left is mimetite. The light-purple-colored areas are caused by visible light from the UV source ...

Clear wickenburgite crystals in a vug within massive wickenburgite (white) and quartz (white). Visual identification.

Mimetite (yellow) in a vug within massive wickenburgite (white). Visual ID.