Arfvedsonite (uncommon locality specimen)

Item Description

A somewhat hard to find specimen of Arfvedsonite featuring highly lustrous, striated, jet-black, bladed crystals with minor attached matrix. The piece sits quite nicely on its own without the aid of a base or clay. The Arfvedsonite crystals show characterisitc clinoamphibole cross-sections when looking down the "c" axis and the terminations show slight altering. No major damage and very showy. This piece certainly looks like it came from the well-known discovery in 2003.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#21 C), a well-known German collector all over Europe with worldwide contacts to dealers and collectors. He started collecting seriously at the age of 14 and his great and varied worldwide collection reached over 6000 pieces. He was very active mineralogically until shortly before his passing in 2020 at the age of 82. Considering his collection had a large number of pieces, it still had an unusually high standard of quality from most worldwide localities. He particularly specialized in all classics as well as minerals of the Black Forest, where he spent much time collecting. His Black Forest and German subcollections went to his good friend Wolfgang Wendel. We at The Arkenstone have the privilege of offering the remainder of this great worldwide collection through our various platforms.