Wulfenite

Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire District, Empire Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA
Ex. George Loud
Miniature, 4.7 x 3.4 x 2.2 cm
Start Time: 01/23/2025 8:00:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 02/02/2025 6:00:00 pm (CST)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $144

Item Description

A fairly hard to find Wulfenite specimen from the Total Wreck Mine, located in the Empire Mountains, southeast of Tucson. This miniature sized specimen hosts several very sharp, highly lustrous, gemmy, orange colored tabular blades measuring up to 5 mm on edge, sitting on oxidized matrix. Most of the crystals are pristine, only minor imperfections can be seen with the naked eye. The Wulfenites look best with magnification, and we've used a Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens to better illustrate their quality.
Ex George Loud Collection No. 48.1.4.1 AZ.13. George (born August 16, 1942) is a well-known mineral collector from Washington, DC and South Carolina respectively, and was a patent lawyer by trade for over 50 years. He assembled one of the great mineral collections in the U.S., comprising worldwide specimens, and in later years he sold the worldwide specimens to focus on minerals of the United States, specifically locality suites with an emphasis on amazing representation of species while still maintaining fine quality. The specimens remarkably range from micros to all the way up to large cabinets in size. We recently acquired most of his impressive 9000+ piece collection, and the VAST majority of these pieces will be offered here in the auctions, as we feel that everyone deserves and equal opportunity at acquiring these important, well-documented and fine quality specimens for their collections.
See: https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/george-loud for more information

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$144 02/02/2025 4:49:03 pm (CST)
$134 02/02/2025 4:07:16 pm (CST)
$125 02/02/2025 4:07:16 pm (CST)
$121 02/02/2025 4:06:58 pm (CST)
$111 02/02/2025 4:06:58 pm (CST)
$95 02/02/2025 3:37:29 pm (CST)
$85 02/02/2025 3:37:29 pm (CST)
$77 01/27/2025 11:50:14 am (CST)
$67 01/27/2025 11:50:14 am (CST)
$35 01/24/2025 4:37:33 pm (CST)
$30 01/24/2025 4:37:33 pm (CST)
$10 01/24/2025 10:07:44 am (CST)