Halite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Item Description

A good sized display specimen of white Halite from Carlsbad, New Mexico. The piece is filled with snow white, lustrous, sharp, skeletal cubic crystals of Halite measuring up to 2.6 cm. A great glimpse into how the specimens looked from this area before the intense blue and purple specimens were found a few years ago. 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, stating that the acquired it from Chris Christensen.