Goethite (uncommon locality specimen)

Item Description

A somewhat hard to find specimen of Goethite from Oruo Preto, Brazil featuring attractive, well-crystallized, lustrous, dark brownish-black "needles", which have formed lovely "sprays", sitting atop a previous generation of matte, botryoidal grey-black Goethite "balls". Good crystallized Goethite is not common from most localities around the world, and to find two generations of distinctly different Goethite together like this is certainly attractive and desirable from any Brazilian locality.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#116 Br), 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.