Azurite

Item Description

The beautiful Azurite specimens from the Liufengshan Mine have been around for about 20+ years, and they remain some of the most beautiful and fine quality examples of the species ever seen from any world locality. They have all the characteristics of the classic pieces from Bisbee, Arizona with their intense midnight blue crystals. You could still consider these as contemporary pieces, but they surely will go down as classics, as they are some of the most attractive representations of Azurite out there. This fine quality small cabinet sized display piece is loaded with sparkling, sharp, brilliant crystals of deep blue Azurite which are associated with lovely, semi-botryoidal brown Limonite along with green Malachite on oxidized matrix. It's uncanny how much the piece resembles Bisbee! The piece is in excellent shape overall, as the only roughness is along the outer edges where it was removed from the pocket wall. A very showy, eye-catching and incredibly good quality example of these now beloved specimens. The largest Azurite crystal measures 4 mm. From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#356 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 over the next two to three years through our various platforms.