Clinoatacamite (rare) with Quartz and Gypsum

Item Description

In recent years, the Lily Mine in Peru has been producing some beautiful secondary minerals, including some excellent examples of Atacamite, Paratacamite and Clinoatacamite. This piece features fine, sharp, lustrous, dark green crystal cluster of Clinoatacamite measuring up to 5 mm across, which are sitting on Quartz and soft blue-green Chrysocolla on matrix. There are also few Gypsum crystals on this piece, including one colorless, GEM quality, "sword"-shaped crystal measuring 1.8 cm, for a great touch. A small patch of chalky white Calcite crystals are also visible in the center of the specimen. The Clinoatacamite crystals are excellent quality, and looks great under magnification, and we've photographed them with a Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens to better illustrate the quality. From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#127 Pe), 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.