Quartz on Hedenbergite

Item Description

This is a wonderfully dramatic and eye-catching association specimen from the contemporary powerhouse locality, the Huanggang Deposit in Inner Mongolia, China. This beautiful small cabinet display specimen features attractive, thin, silvery colored prismatic crystals of Quartz measuring up to 2.5 cm long, beautifully sitting atop a dark greenish colored, slightly chatoyant prismatic Hedenbergite crystal. The Quartz crystals are in great condition, and have a unique "textured" growth on the surface, almost like "cactus" Quartz. I love how the overall piece has an organic appearance, like some kind of vegetation or even a piece of produce (like a pineapple or an oddly colored carrot). From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#903 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 coming months and years through our various platforms.