Goethite

A beautiful, jet-black cluster of botryoidal goethite that almost completely drapes a core rock matrix. This is likely a very old specimen, and comes from a long defunct locale. It is, for a black mineral, really attractive. The piece is complete on the display face and has just a few breaks to the surface on the backside. It was last in the Ed David Collection (Ed was a director of the White House Office of Science and Technology and a former science advisor to President Nixon). Ed obtained it from the Uli Burchard collection.

Unknown Owner

Product details

Species

Goethite

SizeCabinet

Dimensions10.8 x 8.1 x 4.7 cm

Locality

Germany, Siegerland

Added on10/23/2024

Comments

Known provenance

2024/08