Goethite (good quality) (ex Willard Wulff Collection - collected by Clarence Coil)

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 that states the piece was collected by the famous field collector, Clarence Coil, the former collecting partner of Richard Kosnar. This is a great old display piece of featuring sharp, golden-black "needles" of Goethite with a satiny luster forming beautiful crystallized "sprays". For the size, quality and aesthetics, this piece is a fantastic Goethite piece that would fit nicely into any collection. 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).