Wulfenite : CSIRO Spectroscopy Database

Wulfenite

Images

Shortwave UV photoluminescence image of a specimen of wulfenite from Los Lamentos, Mexico. Size: 1cm. Specimen was chilled well below freezing, resulting in frost on the specumen (blue).

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Photograph of a specimen of wulfenite from Los Lamentos, Mexico. Size: 1cm

© Photo (C) 2003 James O. Hamblen (http://hamblen.ece.gatech.edu/uvminerals/). Reproduced with permission.

Wulfenite specimen from Red Cloud Mine, La Paz Co., AZ, USA

© Photo by Chip Clark, via Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Properties

Formula	PbMoO₄
Abbreviation	Wul
Classification	Scheelite (group)
Luminescence emitter	MoO4
IMA Status	Grandfathered (pre-IMA), 1845
Search other databases	webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, fluomin.org, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Crystal symmetry	Tetragonal, Point group 4/m, Space group I4₁/a (#88)
Tags	Mineral, Molybdate

Composition

Element	Atoms
Pb	1
O	4
Mo	1
Total:	6

References

Reference	Lines	Spectra	Images
Gorobets et al. 1989	1	0	0
Griffith 1974	11	0	0
Hamblen 2003	0	0	2
Tarashchan 1978	1	0	0