rare Wulfenite - Bipyramidal crystals (rare style) ex Panczner Coll.

Item Description

Bipyramidal wulfenite is the rarest crystal habit from the renowned Erupcion Mine at Los Lamentos and this is one of the richest of these old specimens we have seen, with such deep color. Lustrous steep, sharply terminated crystals, to 1.2 cm, with rich caramel orange-brown color are dramatically festooned on the rounded mounded small cabinet matrix. In great shape with very few broken crystals for all the crystal density. See the 2003 Mineralogical Record article in Mexico Special Issue III, Vol. 34, No. 6. Ex Bill Panczner Mexican specialty Collection : and note that Bill was the first Curator of Earth Science at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in 1974 and the author of the 1987 book Minerals of Mexico. It is the most thorough summary of the subject. Read about Bill in the Mineralogical Record Biographical Archive at: https://mineralogicalrecord.com/labels.asp?colid=841. An important, aesthetic, rich and rare Los Lamentos wulfenite !