gemmy Wulfenite on Green Mimetite

Item Description

From early 2000's finds, this is a unique combination of green mimetite with wulfenite from the amazing Ojuela Mine. Many mimetite came out, many wulfenite, but they were seldom mixed together - and the association of orange on green is the rarest of all, with only a few pockets on green mimetite over the lifetime of the mine! This is a very unusual piece even amongst the quantity I have seen, an extremely aesthetic specimen. It has square-ish, equant, GLASSY and translucent wulfenite crystals, to .6 cm in length, nestled in a V shaped matrix vug covered in solid rich green mimetite. The wulfenite crystals are not big but are among the gemmiest I have ever seen for the species from this locality and so glassy they really leap out. This is a superb piece because of the contrast of colors and quality. $1000-1500 valuation.