Pink Fluorite with Quartz

Item Description

The Huanggang Deposit in Inner Mongolia, China for many years has been the source of some excellent mineral specimens. In recent years, we've seen some excellent Fluorites coming out of this area, including the best pink Fluorites from anywhere in China. This piece is a wonderful showy display specimen featuring sharp, gemmy pink octahedral crystals measuring up to 2.0 cm on edge, associated with colorless, prismatic, hexagonal Quartz crystals along with minor metallic silvery Arsenopyrite crystals, plus a bit of tan bladed Calcite. The piece is in great shape all around, with no major damage that I can find. Hard to photograph/video, but it looks better in person, and is a showy example of these now hard to find Fluorites, due to the wonderful Quartz association. From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#855 C), 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.