Brochantite with Calcite

Item Description

An attractive and fairly hard to find combo from Bisbee featuring a rich coverage of sparkling, micro, deep emerald green colored, almost velvety/chatoyant crystals of Brochantite sitting on matrix, associated with a roughly 7 cm group of white, translucent Calcite crystals on the top of the specimen. George's label states that this is, "very richly crystallized for the species from Bisbee", and it's certainly one of the biggest and best examples of Brochantite that we've had to offer from the area in the auctions.
This piece was formerly part of the collection of Charles M. Noll, who bequeathed his collection to Marquette University.
Ex George Loud Collection No. 30.1.1 AZ.3; 9973. George (born August 16, 1942) is a well-known mineral collector from Washington, DC and South Carolina respectively, and was a patent lawyer by trade for over 50 years. He assembled one of the great mineral collections in the U.S., comprising worldwide specimens, and in later years he sold the worldwide specimens to focus on minerals of the United States, specifically locality suites with an emphasis on amazing representation of species while still maintaining fine quality. The specimens remarkably range from micros to all the way up to large cabinets in size. We recently acquired most of his impressive 9000+ piece collection, and the VAST majority of these pieces will be offered here in the auctions, as we feel that everyone deserves and equal opportunity at acquiring these important, well-documented and fine quality specimens for their collections.
See: https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/george-loud for more information