Wulfenite

Field of view: 5 mm. Wulfenite perched on hemimorphite. The quadrangular tabular transparent yellow crystals are wulfenite. The tabular transparent crystals under wulfenite are hemimorphite. The transparent prisms on hemimorphite are cerussite. Wulfenite is superior in acoust-optical characters and artificial crystals are used as acoust-optical crystals in the field of applied physics.

Recovered from an open space of a hemimorphite vein in a meteoric oxidation zone of a high-temperature hydrothermal deposit associated with a moderate-temperature hydrothermal deposit combined with skarn formed by contact metamorphism of I-type (magnetite-series) quartz porphyry.

The first wulfenite from Japan was reported from this location in 1895.