Kornerupine (ex Bill and Anne Cook Collection)

Item Description

A hard to find specimen of Kornerupine from the Mt Riddock Station locality in Australia featuring a 4.0 cm, sharp, well-formed, euhedral crystal of a dark brown hue sitting on Mica and Feldspar matrix. The termination is contacted, but the prism faces are still well-formed, and the piece displays nicely. These specimens are seldom seen for sale in any capacity on the market. From the collection of William ("Bill") (1927-2006) and Anne (1928-2021) Cook of Cleveland, Ohio. This husband and wife duo were actively involved in the mineral world for many decades. Bill was a PhD geologist, and Anne was a mathematician, and they both were very serious mineral collectors. Bill served for many years as adjunct curator of mineralogy at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Anne was inducted into the Micromounters' Hall of Fame on October 12, 2019. Both Bill and Anne, at various times, served as president both of the Mineralogical Society of Cleveland and of the Micromineral Society of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Anne was inducted into the mi The rare barium lithium beryllium phosphate Wilancookite was named in their honor in 2015.