Fluorite (rare spherical habit) on Quartz (rare for the locality)

Item Description

Fluorite specimens from Dalnegorsk are varied in terms of the colors, habits and styles found in the various mines, but THIS piece is one of the rarest examples we've seen as it features a notably spherical habit, which is almost unheard of from this prestigious mining area. The Fluorite "ball" measures 1.7 cm across, and when backlit, shows a beautiful mauve color internally with good gemminess. The matrix at first glance might appear to be white Quartz but if you look closely, you'll see there are some tiny pale green octahedral Fluorites as well, so you have TWO distinctly different colors and morphologies of Fluorite together on the same piece. A really cool and incredibly hard to find style of Fluorite from Dalnegorsk that would make a fantastic addition to any worldwide Fluorite suite or a collection of Russian minerals.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#631 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.