Scheelite with Fluorite on Quartz

Item Description

The renowned Yaogangxian Mine in China has for many years been a source of many beautiful crystallized mineral specimens. Here we have a gorgeous toenail sized piece featuring a few very sharp, well-formed, lustrous, pseudo-octahedral crystals with a golden-brown interior hue and very dark brown color zoning on the edges/corners measuring up to 1.0 cm associated with a gemmy, colorless cubes of Fluorite measuring up to 1.2 cm, sitting on Quartz matrix. The specimen is in great shape but I can see a little nick on one of the corners of the Scheelites. Under UV light, the Scheelites show excellent fluorescence. A cool association specimen from what is certainly one of the premier Chinese mineral localities.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#319 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.