| Locality type: | Mine |
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| Species: | Wulfenite |
| Formula: | Pb(MoO4) |
| Comments: | Very small, not exceeding 2 mm. The crystals either project from, or lie flat on, thin crusts of minutely crystallized green pyromorphite, which invests baryte, small bipyramidal crystals of quartz, or hacked quartz from which baryte has been leached. On other specimens single crystals of wulfenite project from cavities in massive baryte lined with ochre. Sometimes as many as 25 minute crystals are present on a square inch of the pyromorphite-covered surface. The wulfenite appears to have been the last mineral formed. In a few cases, wulfenite crystals are penetrated by and have grown round prisms of pyromorphite. |
| Habit: | Acute pyramidal. The crystals are sharp and well-defined and consist of the acute pyramid (111) either alone, or usually in combination with (221), the prism (110), and base (001). The faces (111) are slightly curved except at the apex and merge by repetition into those of (221) and (110), giving the whole crystal a curved outline, some, in fact, being almost barrel-shaped. The basal plane (001) is never smooth, the surface being either square-pitted or studded with innumerable extremely minute (111) pyramids. The faces of (110) are horizontally striated from repetition with the adjoining pyramids, while on most of the crystals the surfaces of (110), (221), and (111) are covered with raised and overlapping outlines of acute pyramids giving them a scaly appearance. In some crystals, two parallel pyramids (111) terminate a single prism (110). The measurements obtained from each of the faces are poor, but good enough to identify the forms with certainty. |
| Colour: | Orange-red, rarely golden-yellow with blotches of red. |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Wulfenite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Loch na Meine Mine, Strathglass, Aird and Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland, UK |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 18129 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:18129:9 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 742cad3d-08ba-4007-8077-ea23ddd5350a |
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| 0.2km (0.1 miles) | ⓘStruy Mines, Struy, Strathglass, Aird and Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland, UK |
| 98.8km (61.4 miles) | ⓘGairnshiel Bridge, Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK |
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