Descloizite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Item Description

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 which has the piece labeled as coming from "Friesenberg, S. W. Africa", which was probably correct at the time. The label also says the piece was acquired from V. D. Hill. Berg Aukus is world-renowned for its extraordinary Descloizite specimens. These pieces have set the standard of excellence for this zinc analogue of Mottramite. It is because of Berg Aukus that we know how good Descloizite crystals can actually get. This piece is filled with many tabular, sharp, lustrous, silvery brown color, layered crystal on matrix. Fairly good shape overall, with only a tiny bit of damage, and it's an attractive, great old time specimen from this noteworthy collection.