Zircon with Aegirine

Item Description

A fine quality and eye-catching association specimen from the famous Mount Malosa locality in Malawi featuring excellent, well-formed, sharp, good sized, tan colored tetragonal prisms of Zircon measuring up to 1.7 cm, associated with elongated dark green (nearly black) colored prismatic crystals of Aegirine on Orthoclase matrix. No major damage that I can find, just some peripheral roughness where it was detached from the pocket wall, and the piece is very aesthetic as you can see. A choice example of this uncommon association from what is almost certainly the most famous locality in Malawi.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#38 ML), 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.