Molybdenite

specimen number:
8821935

location:
Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia

description:
A bright silver metallic lustrous crystal grouping of molybdenite without matrix. Good example for the species. Classic locality. Crystallized completely all around with no points of attachment.

Wolfram Camp, located in the Hodgkinson goldfield of north Queensland, Australia, has a mining history that began with the discovery of tungsten and other rare metals around 1891, triggering a major rush and subsequent periods of intensive underground and open-cut extraction through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Geologically, the deposit is situated within the greisen-altered margins and roof zones of the late Paleozoic Ootann Supersuite granite intrusives, where volatile-rich hydrothermal fluids formed complex, erratic quartz pipes and vugs near the contact with surrounding metamorphic host rocks. Mineralogically, the site is famous for its unique pipe-like assemblages containing coarse-grained wolframite, molybdenite, and bismuth, accompanied by various sulfide minerals and occasional well-formed crystalline vug specimens that have attracted significant global interest.

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