Pedro Goy Benítez (1917-2000) was born in the town of Esparraguera, in the province of Barcelona, but lived most of his life in Oviedo and Madrid.
Pedro was a ‘hidden’ collector, and very few people in the Spanish world of minerals knew that he had assembled a good collection through his hard work and excellent aesthetic taste.
He was self taught, a close friend to those that knew him, pleasant, and well educated, so his presence at mineral shows in the 80s and 90s was absolutely synonymous with a good conversation. He was always hunting for the most attractive specimen at the show, then matching his wish for beauty with the need for scientific knowledge, which he demanded of the dealers or he found among the many mineral text books that he owned. |
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He was interested in botany, mycology, and medicine, just to give you an idea of the range of his interests he wrote material that developed into what he called "An almost encyclopedic glossary of the physical cosmos and nuclear physics".
We hope that through this page we can share the Pedro Goy Collection with other mineral collectors. It is a collection that represents, in a very special way, the dawn of modern Spanish mineralogy as well as the type and form of collection that was typical in Madrid and the regions it influenced during the 1970s to 1990s.
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