Fluorite (GEMMY crystals) on Quartz

Item Description

The Shangbao Mine is famous as one of the top Fluorite-producing localities in China. The best of these pieces are superb and beautiful Fluorites, and have found their way into collections around the world. These are some of the most distinctive, eye-catching and highest quality examples from anywhere in China. This wonderful small cabinet display specimen superb, GEM QUALITY, sharp, lustrous, crystals measuring up to 1.5 cm that are aesthetically perched slightly grey colored prismatic Quartz crystals with minor cubic Pyrite. The Fluorites have a very saturated purple hue, and they glows when backlit. The habit is "stepped" modified cuboctahedrons which look beautiful up close. With the naked eye, the Fluorites are damage free and so elegantly set atop the matrix. It's difficult to obtain pieces of this quality with such excellent aesthetics and balance. The piece displays wonderfully as you can see, and it really stands out as a fine example from this famous mine. Valued $1,250.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#776 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.