Info: Wulfenite is found in the form of various agregates, also in leaf and table crystals. Sometimes can be seen in octaedric or pseudocubic shapes. Wulfenite is often yellow, orange, sometimes grey or even colourless. It's created in lead mines, where it's usually bound with cerusite, vanadinite, porimorphyte and mimetezite.
How to recognize: Wilfenite is easly melted in fire, it also dissolves slowly in acids.
Found: Wulfenite was found in Red Cloud Mine (Arizona, USA), Mibladen and Djebel Mashreur (Morocco), in Mexico, Congo, Bleiberg and Schwarzenbach (Austria). In Czech Republic Wulfenite was found in Příbramsko.
| Crystal structure |
| Tetragonal |
| Hardness |
| 2 - 3 |
| Colour |
| Orange, yellow |
| Luster |
| Glassy |
