Hedenbergite with Quartz (RARE locality specimen)

Item Description

An attractive and very hard to find display specimen from the Nikolaevskiy Mine in Dalnegorsk, Russia featuring a "spray" of prismatic, greenish-brown Hedenbergite crystals, which play host to a slightly smoky colored, sharp, lustrous, translucent, bi-pyramidal crystal of Quartz measuring 1.2 cm across. The piece is in very good condition overall, as nearly all of the terminations on the Hedenbergite crystals are undamaged. Hedenbergite specimens from the Nikolaevskiy Mine are incredibly rare in my experience, so this is the kind of piece that would certainly fill a hole in a comprehensive suite of minerals from Dalnegorsk.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#596 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.