Goethite (ex Willard Wulff Collection) (fine quality)

Item Description

This is a great overall specimen and a wonderful display piece from one of the most storied and well known districts in Colorado. The pegmatites near the Lake George area of Colorado have produced what most collectors and dealers consider to be the finest Amazonite specimens from the standpoint of superb color, top quality, wonderful display specimens and excellent associations. This particular specimen, has no Amazonite, but it is a wonderful piece featuring a central "spray" of fine quality, sharp, lustrous, golden, metallic prismatic crystals of Goethite which are surrounded on each side by semi-botryoidal / radiating crystals of Goethite in a secondary overgrowth. The piece has great aesthetics, and displays well from from. For the size, quality and aesthetics, this piece is a fantastic Goethite that would fit nicely into any collection. Crystallized specimens like this are few and far between from Colorado, or almost anywhere else in the world. This might be a "black rock" but these Goethites are some of the finest crystallized examples of the species extant! Don't miss out on this Colorado "classic". It should be noted that this mineral was named after the famous German philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and the correct pronunciation of the species is GER-tite (with a hard "g" like gold). This specimen comes from the collection of Willard W. Wulff (1904-1998) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a prominent figure and collector of Colorado minerals. Wulff was one of the founding members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society in 1936. You can read Willard's bio on the Mineralogical Record website here ( http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=1528 ).