[Use the interactive data tool created by AZCIR to discover the alike votes between each senatorHERE.] Farnsworth was the only representative to vote against a bill to make
wulfenite Arizonas official state mineral.
Over the next seven years Montgomery and Over were responsible for many spectacular mineral discoveries reaching the market, including red
wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine in Arizona, and epidote from the Green Monster mine on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska.
He did learn, however, many years later, that the mineral in the cave that he showed to Sylvia was
wulfenite, an oxide of lead, named for the eighteenth-century Austrian Jesuit, Franz Xaver Freiherr von Wulfen, also memorialized in the purple-flowering evergreen Wulfenia carinthiaca, found, it is said, only on two mountains in the Carinthian Alps.
These analyses indicate that the Fe-As-O coating is amorphous, the Cu-S-rich phase is crystalline and the patterns are consistent with chalcocite ([Cu.sub.2]S) and/ or djurleite ([Cu.sub.31][S.sub.16]), the Pb-Mo-O-rich phase is crystalline and the patterns are consistent with
wulfenite (PbMo[O.sub.4]), and the Bi-Pb-As-O-rich phase is crystalline but the diffraction patterns could not be indexed conclusively.
Specifically, there were 17 (mostly oil) paintings of
wulfenite, silver sulfosalts, tanzanite, mining scenes and other subjects by Wendell Wilson; there were 18 glowing acrylic paintings of specimens by Susan Robinson; there were 16 examples of Eberhard Equit's fantastically finely detailed watercolors of (mostly German) mineral specimens in their natural sizes; and there were 21 exquisite watercolor paintings, also natural size, by Hildegard Konighofer of Graz, Austria (who has, by the way, just published a new book of her mineral art).
These include arsentsumebite, tsumebite, corkite, fornacite, duftite, caledonite, kettnerite, linarite, leadhillite, brochantite, mimetite, pyromorphite, vanadinite and
wulfenite.
Kevin Downey's dealership called Well Arranged Molecules (www.wellarrangedmolecules.com) was offering red
wulfenite in thumbnail, miniature and small cabinet-sizes from a locality he gave as "Tuokexun, Tulufan Prefecture, Xinjiang, Uygur Region, China"--almost certainly these specimens are from the remote mine in the Kuruktag Mountains of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, as described by Wilson and Origlieri in January-February 2007.
An upper level of the old workings has lately been producing fluorite, in transparent deep purple crystals, with
wulfenite, barite and calcite.
Goodchild, of the Scottish Geological Survey, found
wulfenite there in 1875 but the locality only really became of interest to collectors in the 1950s following the reporting of a suite of rare supergene minerals including bayldonite, duftite, beudantite, carminite, lindgrenite and stolzite (the first authenticated British occurrence).
Wulfenite Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico 2 1/4" tall ex-collection M.
Their first ad that month in Rocks & Minerals advertised Los Lamentos
wulfenite (square tabular and prismatic) at 45cents per square inch of crystal-covered matrix, and diaboleite at 50cents per square inch, up to 16 square inches (for $8).
Within the past five years the abandoned workings of the old Mobile mine in the Goodsprings district, Clark County, have yielded small, fairly nice
wulfenite specimens, and about 25 small miniature-size examples were on hand in the Holiday Inn room of Great Basin Minerals (www.greatbasinminerals.com).
wulfenite - a yellow to orange or brown mineral used as a molybdenum ore