Fluorite (rare color for the locality)

Item Description

A beautiful Fluorite from the Nikolaevskiy Mine in Dalnegorsk, with a notably rare color for the locality. Most of the Fluorites you'll see from this mine are typically green or colorless, but this small cabinet specimen features GEM quality, sharp, well-formed, lustrous, cubic crystals (with defined dodecahedral modifications) measuring up to 1.4 cm, sitting on a matrix of lovely prismatic Quartz crystals, with minor black Sphalerite and accenting Chalcopyrite. The Fluorites all appear to be undamaged as far as I can see with the naked eye, and they're like transparent lavender pools, where you can look straight through them to the underlying matrix. Very attractive in person and fine quality. Valued $1,500 for the quality and the rare color for the mine.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#538 R), 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 through our various platforms.