Crossword-Solution: WULFENITE
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| Wulfenite | n. | Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color; -- also called yellow lead ore. |
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| yellow, orange, red, or grey lustrous secondary mineral | 1 answer |
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Wulfenite is rather common in the upper oxidized zone of deposits which contain lead minerals and molybdenite.
See Molybdena.] (Chem.) Defn: A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal.
Though the original condition of the ore was doubtless sulphide, it now contains, as the result of oxidation, hematite, limonite, magnetite, malachite, azurite, chrysocolla, cerussite, wulfenite, chloride of silver, manganese oxide, and metallic gold.
The ores of the limestone deposits are chiefly chloride of silver and embolite (chloro-bromide of silver), which is usually accompanied by copper carbonate, sometimes a copper-silver sulphide, wulfenite, lead, and iron in various forms, in a gangue of calcite and quartz, with occasionally manganese oxide.
The veins in the Connecticut Valley region contain many other minerals, among which must be mentioned datolite, natrolite, apophyllite, thomsonite, fluorite and babbingtonite in the lavas; and siderite, rhodochrosite, rhodonite, wulfenite and pyromorphite in the older veins of the highlands.