Wulfenite on Mottramite - San Juan Poniente, Ojuela Mine,, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
ex Tobias Weise collection / find 2012
 
Pictured in Lapis March 2013 | Tucson show report, photo Jeff Scovil.
Up to 1.7 cm large Wulfenite with a lustrous, packaged surface and a beautiful orange color on a velvety shiny Mottramite. The Wulfenites have partly grown into the Mottramite and partly grown up in a wonderful way on smaller towers, almost as if they were floating. 
As famous as the Ojuela Mine is for wulfenite, this wonderful paragenesis of wulfenite on mottramite is rare. 
 
Rare and highly aesthetic collector's item from Mexico.