Description
Several slugs of yolk yellow rare silicate Wöhlerite richly embedded in matrix. This is a good sample of a rare species which comes from the type locality Løvøya of Langesundfjorden in Norway and seldom seen on the mineral market. Wöhlerite is named after the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler (31 July 1800, Eschersheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire - 23 September 1882, Göttingen, German Empire), professor of chemistry in the University of Göttingen (Germany). He was the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form. (mindat)