Fluorite (rich color)

Item Description

This is a fantastic display quality specimen of beautiful intense green colored Fluorite from an undisclosed locality in Grant County, New Mexico featuring a full coverage of good-sized octahedral crystals (measuring up to 3.5 cm on edge), showing an intense vivid green hue internally when backlit. Very minor matrix is present on the reverse side of the piece. Looking closely, you can see the octahedral crystals have tiny overgrowths of pale silvery-lilac colored cubic Fluorite crystals on select faces. No major damage to the piece, outside of the forgivable peripheral edges where the piece was removed from the pocket wall. A really attractive piece of this classic material with larger-than-average sized crystals and that alluring color.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#222 US), 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.