Show off your lovely Wulfenites!

Hello,
I must be bored this morning, the weather up here in Oregon is supposed to FINALLY clear up. The longest winter I can remember.
I LOVE wulfenite and have over 180 in my collection. I would love to see yours! I will start by showing you a couple of mine
Jeffrey Hill
The first is 79 Mine (79th Mine; Seventy-Nine Mine; Seventy-Nine property; McHur prospect), Chilito, Hayden area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA...a superlative cabinet specimen I got in trade for a rare Dundasite with Azurite from the Kelly Mine in New Mexico a few weeks ago from Dan at California Mineral Connection.
The Second and third images are of an oldie from Empire Mine, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA...ones of this quality are very scarce, ex. Oxcart Minerals

Have a great day!

Hi Jeffrey,

Though I don't have any where near the number of specimens as you, I'm also quite fond of wulfenite. Attached you'll find photos of a new addition to my collection. It's a small cabinet specimen from the 79 Mine that I obtained in a trade at a local mineral show in Aitkin, MN. This is my first (and so far only) specimen from this locality, so I'm rather proud of it. Hope you like it. :)

Best wishes,
Tim Blackwood
Cohasset, MN, USA

Two for you-

first a TN from the new find in Nevada

Second is a Rowley Mine specimen I got last year at the Columbus, OH show. The dealer had bunches of these, all with outrageous $100+ price tags, but I looked through them anyway, because they were nice. Than I see this one, marked at only $5 for no reason that I can see! Anyhow, enjoy!

Don't you just love digging around for a bargain! Stunning Rowley Blade. I just accidentally broke my Mobile Mine blade and need a replacement... I will try to photograph a Red Cloud I got for $20 and a Rowley for the same price last year at the Valley Springs Pow Wow...Oh yes, the 79 piece is a great on with a real classic look to the crystallization for the locality!
Keep em coming, this is fun!
Jeff

Here's a Chinese wulfenite that I found in Tucson this year:

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Nik

Oh yes, I got the Mobile Mine piece off eBay from you Chris LOL
Way cool Jianshan Wulf....nicer than any of mine, I have about 4 of them in my collection.
Jeff

Hi all

Here are a few specimens from the Loudville Lead Mines, Hampshire County MA. I know they are by no means museum pieces but they are self collected Wulfenite from this location and that makes them just fine for me. If you have any knowledge of this site, you know you are dealing with mainly micros, thumbnails at best. Quite a variety of wulfs come from here, and you never know what you have until you get out the scope! I know the second pic says Pyromorphite, but there are Wulfs on them.

Have fun....Andy

Nice MA pieces! Funny, that is one mine I do not have specimens from
Here is a Defiance Mine, Costello Mine group (Costello claims), Gleeson, Turquoise District (Courtland-Gleeson District), Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA specimen from the adit about 100' away from the winze, way back in, in a very dangerous pocket to collect in. Self Collected a while back Nice tabular to cubic wulfenites from 1 to 2 mm on a VERY contrasty and fragile black matrix!

Jeffrey if boredom inspires you to start a topic such as this one please keep it up.
Great specimens matey, Timothy your were fantastic too.
This is my contribution from Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico.
small cab size.

Thought I would poke in here with a self-collected from the mid-1970s. I squeezed up into the stop and passed the specimens back because I was the only one small enough to get through...wish that was still true.



Don't have as nice a Mobile as Chris posted but thought I would put in this one I collected in the 1980s. Nice climb to the mine and a beautiful view once you get there. I have better but cannot put my finger on them at the momment. Will post when I find them.



Bill

Hi everyone,

Wow! I'm really enjoying seeing all the wonderful wulfenites. Philip, I'm glad you liked my 79 Mine piece. Jeffrey's 79 Mine specimen looks great. My piece has some slight damage in places, but Jeffrey's looks perfect. And, please call me Tim. When someone uses my full first-name, I think I've done something wrong. :) I can hardly wait to see more fine specimens and may even take some new photos myself. :)

Best wishes,
Tim
Cohasset, MN, USA

Thanks Tim, if you continue to post your Tim,
if you get slack & fail to post:? i'll call you Timothy, lol, ok? keep the Wulfenites coming they're great.

Thanks Tim, if you continue to post your Tim,
if you get slack & fail to post:? i'll call you Timothy, lol, ok? keep the Wulfenites coming they're great.

Wow Philip, that Los Lamentos is a dream specimen..blows away any of mine!
I have a similar specimen of the Tecoma Hills Mine, Utah to Williams, mine is a bit richer, but the find looks to be the same. An older specimen pedigreed to Oxcart Minerals. I don't know if it is inappropriate to ask on MinDat but I am looking to trade for a Mobile Mine piece to replace the blade I accidentally broke while cataloging and taking off its tack If that is inappropriate to ask, someone please let me know.
I will get some newer pics up tomorrow, for now here is my San Fransisco Mine, the most expensive one I have bought. It was $150 keystone from out of the now late Harvey Gordons Warehouse, ex. Miners Lunchbox...blades to well over an inch!
JeffX(

Hi Philip,

I'll do my best to keep posting. At least until I run out of wulfenites. I should be able to get more pictures taken over the next few days, though I'll likely be away from home tomorrow. The only ones I probably won't post are a couple from Tsumeb. They're just not very exciting to look at.

Best wishes,
Tim
Cohasset, MN, USA

I'll join in with some Norwegian micromounts, and a perhaps not so well known locality outside Norway.
The first is absolutely my favourite wulfenite, and the smallest (size of sample is 3mm X 1,5mm X 1,5mm)!

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The second is a more typical wulfi from same locality, both growing on hemimorphite, and self collected of course).

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Hope I someday can get some good pics of wulfies from some of the larvikite quarries in my "back yard", some of them are wonderful micros too, and pretty unusual localities more known for their rare alkaline minerals...

Jeffrey,

Thanks for starting this interesting thread. Here is a photo of a Tsumeb wulfenite that I purchased from the Zwiebels (Mineral Kingdom) circa 1974.

The specimen is around 4cm in diameter with the wulfie sitting on a light pink matrix. The specimen is complete on all sides.

Best,

Joe

OK, so here is an Australian one...


Regards
Steve

Here is one of my favorite Wulfenites. It's a micro, from Urumqui, Kuruktag Mtns., China.

Bob

Here are three micros from the Purple Passion Mine, near Wickenburg, Arizona.



Steve Stuart