Smithsonite (uncommon locality)

Item Description

A cool specimen of these attractive and rarely seen Smithsonite from the famous Skorpion Mine. This small cabinet is filled with resinous, translucent, soft blue colored radiating aggregates of Smithsonite measuring up to about 6 mm across, on matrix. It's a very good quality specimen from this well-known zinc mine, with no major damage (outside of the periphery where the piece was removed from the pocket wall), and you don't see them on the market anymore. This particular piece was mined circa 2009.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (The number on the specimen is #146 N, but the catalogue entry for the piece is actually #145 N), 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.