Dolomite with Quartz and Fluorite

Item Description

The Yaogangxian Mine in China has been one of the great specimen producing localities in the entire country for a couple decades. You don't see a lot of choice display specimens of Dolomite from this mine, and if you have a suite of minerals from this prestigious mine, this is a great one to add to your collection. The piece features a wonderful crystallized "ball" composed of pearly, cream colored rhombs aesthetically sitting on prismatic, colorless, gemmy Quartz crystals with minor purple Fluorite on matrix. The Dolomite "ball" measures 2.4 cm. No damage and very showy! Valeud $800. From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#387 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.