Fluorite (beautiful color)

Item Description

A wonderful cabinet sized display specimen from the Fluorite Mine in the Hohe Tauern of the Austrian Alps. This piece features many rather lustrous, gemmy, beautiful "aqua" blue colored cubic crystals measuring up to 9 mm on edge, sitting on Triassic dolomite matrix. The entry for this locality on mindat.org states that it is a "show gallery/cave ("Mineraliengrotte")", open to the public to visit. No damage that I can find, and the color is very attractive in person, though it does shift from certain tones to blue to more of a greenish overtone depending upon the temperature of the light under which it is viewed.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#27 O), 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.