Artinite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Item Description

This thumbnail display specimen features beautiful radiating "sprays" of white Artinite on matrix from the Clear Creek area of San Benito County. Artinite is a rather rare and lesser-known carbonate mineral (though it LOOKS a lot like some well-known Zeolite minerals) that rarely forms isolated balls of radiating, fibrous crystals. This piece 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 ). The specimen come with one of his classic typed labels on the bottom of "Perky" box.