Wickenburgite

Colorless hexagonal crystals of Wickenburgite. Picture width is 1,8mm.

© Elmar Lackner 2009

photo and collection Joachim Esche modified Wild M420 photomacroscope with apozoom and Canon EOS 550D

© Joachim Esche 2017

Clear hexagonal plates of wickenburgite on matrix. Ex. Jim McGlasson Thumbnail Collection.

Colorless crystals of wickenburgite FOV 1,5 mm Collection and Photo : Vincent Bourgoin

© Vincent Bourgoin

Colorless hexagonal plates of wickenburgite with yellow mimetite. Doug Merson photo and collection.

© 2017 Doug Merson

Field of view: 1.0mm Ex. R. Feigl collection

© Marko Burkhardt

Field of view: 2mm, Photo & Collection: JM.Johannet. Collected by Robert Pecorini in 2003.

© Jean-Marc Johannet

Clear hexagonal plates of wickenburgite on matrix. Ex. Jim McGlasson Thumbnail Collection.

Aggregate of pseudo-hexagonal, white, thick crystals with horizontal streaks of wickenburgite. The child photo depicts a small vug with several small crystals with similar morphology. Former Adriana & Renato Pagano collection and now Gianfranco Ciccolini collection, author of the photo. Nikon D850, bellows, Luminar 16 mm.

The "Field observations" describe two areas of workings. This specimen was collected at the "second area". It was found in the waste rock dump several yards above the "deep vertical shaft". That waste rock was apparently scraped from near the "outcrop of a mineralized vein". That vein is still visible in 2022 and is near the center of the ...

Aggregate of pseudo-hexagonal, white, thick crystals with horizontal streaks of wickenburgite. The child photo depicts a small vug with several small crystals with similar morphology. Former Adriana & Renato Pagano collection and now Gianfranco Ciccolini collection, author of the photo. Nikon D850, bellows, Luminar 16 mm.

Hollow spherical aggregates of white wickenburgite with yellow prismatic mimetite crystals and red phoenicochroite.

© Paul Favia

0,35 mm diameter Wickenburgite crystal on Quartz, found in Pack Rat claim, Wickenburg, Arizona

© found adn photographed by W. Stoll

Intergrown group of clear xl. Field of view .8mm. R.D. Green collection and photo.

© R.D.Green

Colourless rhombohedral wickenburgite crystals cluster. Sony Alpha 7R ii/Mitutoyo Plan Apo X 20 / Achromatic doublet retro/"Stone Master Stack Unit" Linear-actor & Control/ Aperture. Photo & Collection: Christophe Boutry.

© Christophe Boutry

Unusually distinct wickenburgite crystals. FoV approx 2mm.

© Rick Turner, 2004

White Wickenburgite with Willemite and Fluorite from Arizona. Wickenburgite fluoresces red, Willemite fluoresces green and Fluorite is blue to purple under Short-Wave UV Light. (See Attachment) Specimen is 55 x 45 x 30 mm. Former Gemini Gem and Mineral Club Specimen #G32. THIS PHOTO IS TAKEN UNDER SHORT-WAVE UV LIGHT.

© A. Haighton

dimension area mm. 4 x 4 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Single wickenburgite crystal associated with cerussite and luddenite. This specimen has not been analyzed. Brent Thorne specimen and photograph.

© Brent Thorne 2008

Whitish pseudohexagonal wickenburgite crystals on matrix. Photograph with a KEYENCE VHX series digital microscope using integrated z-stacker, 25 steps, semi-manual, during a quick test run. Widht of view approx 1.2 mm.

© Roger Lang 2009

field of view about 0,3 x 0,3 cm.

© Sandro Maggia

White Wickenburgite crystals with yellow Phoenicochroite; Field of view: 6 mm.

© Daniel Lunau

Whitish transparent to translucent wickenburgite crystals on matrix. Photograph with KEYENCE VHX series digital microscope during a quick test run - semi-manual z stacking with approx. 10 steps by scope software.

© Roger Lang 2009

RRUFF Project Specimen ID: R060087 Locality: Potter Claim, Wickenburg, Arizona, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 9500 Colorless flattened tabular hexagonal prisms

© Rruff Project

White Wickenburgite with Willemite and Fluorite from Arizona. Wickenburgite fluoresces red, Willemite fluoresces green and Fluorite is blue to purple under Short-Wave UV Light. (See Attachment) Specimen is 55 x 45 x 30 mm. Former Gemini Gem and Mineral Club Specimen #G32.

© A. Haighton

Quite a few very small(

© Jasun McAvoy & mineralman.com

From the Potter-Cramer Mine near Wickenburg, AZ USA comes this 3" wide specimen. Contains: wickenburgite (FL Red >UVc) Willemite (FL+PHOS Greenish yellow >UVc) Fluorite (FL Blue >UVc) Shown under UVc light. Obtained from Arizona Ultraviolet Key: WL = White light FL = Fluoresces PHOS = Phosporesces UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm ...

© 2011 Cran Cowan

Width of field is 0.5 mm. Collection of Jesse Crawford. The depth of field has been enhanced using Helicon Focus (29 exposures). Equipment: Nikon D-100 on a homemade microscope.

© 2008 by Jesse Crawford

Width of field 2,5 mm. Collection and photo Jesse Crawford. Compositing program CombineZP. Equipment: Nikon D-100 on a homemade microscope.

© 2008 by Jesse Crawford

Width of field is 2.5mm. Collection of Jesse Crawford. Depth of field is enhanced using Helicon Focus (16 exposures). Equipment: Nikon D-100 on a homemade microscope.

© 2008 by Jesse Crawford

A multi-color fluorescent from Potter-Cramer Mine, with wickenburgite (pink, red), fluorite (violet), willemite (green), cerussite (yellow), and an undetermined light blue fluorescing mineral. Shown in shortwave UV (254nm), longwave UV (365nm) and visible light. See other views for photos of the reverse side of the specimen. UV comparison photo ...

© Dennis Michael

This is a short wave UV picture of wickenburgite crystals on the matrix. The field of view is about 3 cm and the individual crystal clusters are about 1 mm in size. The photography conditions were: f9, 30 second exposure, ISO 400 using a 4 watt short wave UV lamp. Thomas Cahill collection and photo.

© Thomas Cahill

RRUFF Project Specimen ID: R060048 Locality: Rat Tail Claim, Wickenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 16434 Colorless thin hexagonal prisms

© Rruff Project

While rather small, the Wickenburgite crystals are very nicely formed.

© Jasun McAvoy & mineralman.com

dimension area mm. 2 x 2 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

dimension area mm. 2 x 2 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Pseudohexagonal platelets of wickenburgite on a specimen I "collected" at the 2010 Cleveland Micromineral Symposium. FOV is less than 2 mm in length. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.

© SMS 2010

Hexagonal crystal of wickenburgite FOV 0,7 mm Collection and Photo : Vincent Bourgoin

© Vincent Bourgoin

Field of view is 0.2 mm wide with hexagonal wickenburgite, orange mimetite and scattered light green creaseyite crystals. Jerry A. Baird photo and specimen.

Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo M Plan 20x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control. Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried

© Stephan Wolfsried 11/2016

UV Response - SW LW (photo taken using short and long wave UV together)

A mass of Quartz and Fluorite with many cavities that originally contained Galena. The cavities are lined with colorless, hexagonal 1 mm crystals of Wickenburgite, tiny, < 1mm orange-red crystals of Hemihedrite on the cavity on the left of the photograph and massive deep red Pheonicochroite on the upper left of the photograph. Yellow Mimetite ...

Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo M Plan 10x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control. Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried

© Stephan Wolfsried 11/2016

UV response - SW LW

UV Response - SW LW (photo taken using short and long wave UV together)

Colorless, platy wickenburgite crystal clusters. Collected by Phil Partington. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Clear, tightly packed bladed crystals of wickenburgite with yellow mimetite. Collected by Phil Partington. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

13.8 x 8.5 x 7.7 cm. Wickenburgite is a rare Ca-Pb-Al silicate and this rich large combination specimen is from the Type Locality in Arizona. The sculptural matrix includes microcrystalline wickenburgite, willemite, fluorite and chalcedony. The piece has 3-color fluorescence: Red - Wickenburgite; Green - Willemite; and Blue - Fluorite. Not pretty ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

Colorless, hexagonal platy wickenburgite crystals with other unidentified minerals. Collected by Joe Ruiz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Hexagonal crystals. In the sample as brilliant colorless tabular crystals. Analyzed by SEM-EDS.

© Joan Rosell. RosellMinerals.com

Colorless wickenburgite crystals, some singular, hexagonal crystals, orange wulfenite and bright yellow mimetite. Collected by Phil Partington. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Spherical, colorless, clusters of minute hexagonal plates of wickenburgite. Collected by Joe Ruiz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

White hexagonal plates of wickenburgite on quartz. Other minerals associated but not in the photograph are fornacite, mimetite, and chrysocolla. I purchased this specimen at the 2017 Tucson micro mineral room from Ron Gibbs, who collected it.

© Alex Earl 2017

Rare and very small (up to 0,15-0,20 mm) transparent, exagonal crystals. Obtained from Dieter Nickolay. In my personal systematic suite. Photo Simone Citon

© Simone Citon

Group of colorless, platy wickenburgite crystals. Collected by Phil Partington. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Pale yellow pseudohexagonal flattened wickenburgite crystals. Olympus OM DE M5 Mark II.Bellows.Mitutoyo Plan Apo X 20 /Raynox Dcr 150 retro/ Aperture. Photo and Collection Christophe Boutry.

© Christophe Boutry

Tiny, colorless, platy crystals of wickenburgite with orange hemihedrite in matrix. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

The "Field observations" for this locality describe two areas of workings. This specimen was collected at the "second area". The field observations mention an "outcrop of a mineralized vein" which is still visible in 2022 across the width of a large flattened area just below the "deep vertical shaft". A few scattered chunks of material from ...

Wickenburgite is a polymetallic silicate that occurs at only 9 localities worldwide, with 5 of these sites lying in close proximity near Wickenburg, Arizona, the locality for which the mineral is named. Specimens are often spectacularly fluorescent under short wave ultraviolet light, as shown in the lower image. The red fluorescence represents ...

© Dan A. Polhemus, 2019

Tiny colorless wickenburgite crystals, associated with alamosite, from the Rawhide mine in Arizona. The field of view is 0.5 mm across. Henry Minot photo & collection.

© Henry Minot

Colorless, platy, hexagonal wickenburgite crystals with yellow mimetite in fluorite. Collected by Phil Partington. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Colorless hexagonal plates of wickenburgite with yellow mimetite from the type locality. Photographed by and in the collection of Douglas Merson.

© 2019 Douglas Merson

A multi-color fluorescent from Potter-Cramer Mine, fluorite (violet), cerussite (yellow), and an unknown light blue fluorescing mineral. Shown in longwave UV (365nm). Canon 100mm Macro. Specimen is 58x50x44mm

© Dennis Michael

Group of colorless, platy wickenburgite crystals. Collected by Phil Partington. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Clear, hexagonal crystals of wickenburgite. This is a rare mineral, found at less than 15 locations worldwide, the majority in close proximity to each other in central and western Arizona. Dan A. Polhemus photo, acquired using a Leica DMC 5400 digital camera linked to a Leica M-165C computerized microscope, with photo compositing using Leica ...

© Dan A. Polhemus, 2022

Tiny colourless wickenburgite crystals. Width of view is 9.5mm. Stack of 30 images.

© Steve Sorrell

A multi-color fluorescent from Potter-Cramer Mine, with wickenburgite (pink, red), fluorite (violet), willemite (green), cerussite (yellow), and an undetermined light blue fluorescing mineral. Shown in shortwave UV (254nm), longwave UV (365nm) and visible light. (Reverse side) UV comparison photo set. Canon 100mm Macro. Specimen is 58x50x44mm

© Dennis Michael

Pristine assemblage enclosed within a small fracture, collected in January 2021 during a Covid lockdown escape.

© Paul A. Favia

Colorless hexagonal crystals of wickenburgite. Photographed by and in the collection of Douglas Merson.

© 2019 Douglas Merson

Colorless, platy, hexagonal wickenburgite crystals with yellow mimetite. Collected by Phil Partington. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

A colorless, hexagonal wickenburgite crystal from the type locality.

Large dark orange dipyramidal wulfenite crystals (on left) with white platelets of wickenburgite with yellow-orange prisms of mimetite.

A dark orange wulfenite crystal on a white crust of wickenburgite.

Large dark orange dipyramidal wulfenite crystal (bottom left) with white platelets of wickenburgite.

A multi-color fluorescent from Potter-Cramer Mine, with wickenburgite (pink, red), fluorite (violet), willemite (green), cerussite (yellow), and an undetermined light blue fluorescing mineral. Shown in shortwave UV (254nm), longwave UV (365nm) and visible light. (Reverse side) UV comparison photo set. Canon 100mm Macro. Specimen is 58x50x44mm

© Dennis Michael