Willemite on Wulfenite (excellent RARE locality specimen) (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)

Item Description

Minerals from Tiger are some of the most highly sought after specimens for Arizona collectors. The beautiful associations and colors of minerals from this area are iconic, and truly stand out from other Arizona minerals. This fantastic small cabinet specimen featuring hundreds of tiny beautiful gemmy blue hexagonal barrel-shaped crystals of Willemite sitting atop wonderfully contrasting bladed orange Wulfenite crystals measuring up to 2.1 cm on matrix. The Willemite crystals are best viewed under magnification, and we have photographed them with a Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens to better illustrate the quality, so you can see how gemmy and well-formed they are. It's important to note that virtually all of the Wulfenite crystals are contacted in one form or another, so it's fair to say there's some roughness on the piece, but it's still an incredibly hard to find combo from one of the most well-known and celebrated localities in Arizona. There are very few places in North American where blue Willemite crystals have been found, and even fewer where they are associated with bright orange Wulfenite like this. From the collection of Robert (Bob) Reynolds who passed in August of 2020. Bob was a well-known fossil and mineral expert and former Curator of Earth Sciences at the San Bernardino County Museum in California. The rare phyllomanganate-chromate species Reynoldsite was named in his honor in 2011.