Fluorite (rare locality specimen)

Item Description

Here we have a rather rare specimen of Fluorite on Quartz from the lesser-known Klichka locality in southeastern Russia, near the borders with China and Mongolia. This showy small cabinet sized piece features very soft greenish colored, gemmy octahedral crystals measuring up to 1.3 cm, with drusy grey sparkling Quartz on matrix. Nearly all of the Fluorites are undamaged, and there are crystals to be seen on all the way around the display side of the piece. Very few of these were available, and it's the kind of piece you could really only find in a such a deep comprehensive collection like Kurt's.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#183 Ru), 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.