Quartz with iron oxide coating

Item Description

A beautiful and sculptural display specimen from the Oumjrane District in Morocco featuring dozens of sharp, well-formed, prismatic hexagonal crystals of Quartz measuring up to 3.7 cm long with a deep burnt orange coating of iron oxide on all sides. As a matter of fact, the piece is crystallized all around, even on the bottom, and it's very close to being a complete "floater", with only a tiny point of attachment underneath. The deep color combined with the excellent three dimensional form of the piece makes it a very desirable and eye-catching example of this lesser-seen material.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#222 M), 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.