Specimen #1997

Name: Wulfenite

Type: Micromount

Locality: Glove Mine, Glove Mine group, Devil's Cash Box ridge, Amado, Cottonwood Canyon, Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

Favorite? N

Fluorescent? N

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Acquired: 2010-06-20

Source: Simkev Micromounts

Label: N

Comment: Highly lustrous glassy transparent to translucent tabular yellow crystals. The latest name of this mine was derived from the fact that the best ore lined, or coated, the ends of tubes or ore chimneys, which resemble large fingers, just as a glove would cover the fingers of a hand.

Minerals: Wulfenite (PbMoO₄)

There are 2 pictures on file

M01997-01.jpg:

Wulfenite, Glove Mine, Glove Mine group, Devil's Cash Box ridge, Amado, Cottonwood Canyon, Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona - FOV: 1.6 x 1.1 mm (7 stacked images)

M01997-02.jpg:

Wulfenite, Glove Mine, Glove Mine group, Devil's Cash Box ridge, Amado, Cottonwood Canyon, Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona - FOV: 4.6 x 3.1 mm (26 stacked images)