Cerussite (rare locality specimen)

Item Description

The Daoping Mine in China is world-famous for it's beautiful green Pyromorphites, but it's rare to find other species on the market from this locality. This piece is a lovely and rarely seen Cerussite from this classic lead deposit and features attractive, sharp, lustrous, colorless, prismatic crystals measuring up to 1.9 cm, sitting on partially oxidized matrix. The crystals all appear to be single UN-twinned prims, I can't find any twinning on any of them, which is not common from this locality, as nearly all of the specimens I can recall showed some kind of twinning. Good quality all around, with no major damage, and the crystals look beautiful up close.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#212 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.