Grossular (rare locality specimen)

Item Description

Here we have a fine quality and rarely seen Grossular specimen from the famed Akhmatovskaya Kop', best known for its world-class Perovskite crystals. This locality is a famous skarn deposit, but good crystallized Garnets are rare. This small cabinet display specimen is filled with sharp, well-formed, attractive trapezohedral crystals of a deep red hue measuring up to 1.1 cm across, which are associated light green prismatic crystals of Diopside crystals measuring to about 2 mm, along with little groups of green Clinochlore and minor white Calcite on a thin slab of matrix. With strong backlighting, the Garnets show intense patches of color, but you need a strong light to see it. If you collect worldwide Garnets, Russian minerals or hard to find locality pieces, this is very good example that would make a fine addition to your collection. Valued $1,500.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl, 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 for the foreseeable future through our various platforms.