Brochantite (fine color and quality)

Item Description

An excellent specimen of the famed Brochantites from the Goulmima locality in Morocco. This pieces features a vug that is lined with intense emerald green colored acicular "needles" of Brochantite, forming radial "sprays", which are associated with minor azure-blue Linarite sitting on massive Quartz matrix. The Brochantite "needles" are beautiful up close and in a display case. That color just grabs you, it's so distinctive and captivating. Even though Brochantite is a sulfate species, the crystals have an almost metallic quality to them if that makes sense. These are vibrant glowing crystals, not dull or "washed out", and this piece is certainly worth adding to any collection of secondary copper minerals or specimens from Morocco. Priced at $1,500. From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#43 M on the specimen, but it's actually #42 M in his collection catalogue), 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.