Scheelite on Quartz

Item Description

What a beautiful and remarkable display specimen of these very hard to find Scheelites from the Piaotang Mine in China. This small cabinet sized piece hosts a few very sharp, well-formed, lustrous, soft pinkish-brown colored pseudo-octahedral crystals of Scheelite measuring up to 1.5 cm across, which are delicately sitting on a matrix composed of slightly smoky colored Quartz with a drusy coating of tiny colorless cubes of Fluorite which are colored a pale green hue from inclusions of "Chlorite", along with tabular white blades of Calcite ("Blatterspat), and dark brownish-black crystals of Sphalerite on the back. The piece is in superb condition with no major damage that I can find on the front/display side, and its sits beautifully on its own without the aid of a base or clay. The Scheelites show wonderful fluorescence under UV light as well. Valued $2,000. From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#740 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.