Mimetite with Wulfenite

Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Miniature, 3.7 x 3.3 x 2.7 cm
Start Time: 08/31/2023 7:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 09/07/2023 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Winning Bid: $150
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Item Description

The historic and prodigious Ojuela Mine in Mexico is one of the most iconic mineral producing localities in the entire country. This significant mine has produced some of the most iconic mineral specimens in the history of mining, not only in Mexico, but worldwide. This is a beautiful specimen featuring many excellent resinous yellow-orange color Mimetite aggregates in semi-spherical form measuring which are associated with a few sharp, lustrous, gemmy tabular crystals of Wulfenite on the lower side of the piece, with minor attached matrix. The Mimetites are not quite prisms or balls, but somewhere in between. I've described them before as "elongated globular" groups. Overall, the Mimetites are in great condition, but the Wulfenite is contacted on one side. This particular combination of yellow Mimetite and yellow Wulfenite and is not terribly common from this locality. We've seen plenty of green Mimetites from the Ojuela Mine often associated with Wulfenite, but the yellow material is older, and to my mind, less common than the green.

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Bidding History

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$150 09/07/2023 1:19:49 pm (CDT)
$140 09/07/2023 1:19:49 pm (CDT)
$130 09/07/2023 1:19:40 pm (CDT)
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$110 09/03/2023 5:58:01 pm (CDT)
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$60 09/02/2023 1:33:45 pm (CDT)
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$40 09/02/2023 1:33:37 pm (CDT)
$35 09/02/2023 1:33:37 pm (CDT)
$15 09/02/2023 10:51:52 am (CDT)
$10 09/01/2023 11:56:39 am (CDT)