Aurichalcite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Item Description

A cool and classic Aurichalcite specimen from the famous Ojuela mine in Mexico. The piece is filled with bright greenish-blue, acicular crystals with blue-green Rosasite on Limonite matrix. A good small cabinet sized piece of this well known zinc copper carbonate. 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 ). The piece comes with a typed label from Wulff on one of his famous 3x5 index cards that states the piece was acquired from Scott J. Williams.