Kurt Hefendehl Collection Auction!

This week we are pleased to offer a selection of classic mineral specimens from the collection of one of the great mineral collectors of Germany from the last nearly 70 years. Kurt Hefendehl 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. We at The Arkenstone have the privilege of offering the remainder of this great collection.

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Calcite with Pyrite oriented deposition
Chenzhou, Hunan, China
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
10.4 x 9.3 x 8.1 cm
Winning Bid: $1,050
Hemimorphite
Potosí Mine, West Camp, Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán Mun., Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
10.3 x 7.2 x 6.2 cm
Winning Bid: $120
Pyrite
Quiruvilca Mine, Santiago de Chuco, La Libertad, Peru
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
15.5 x 10.2 x 6.1 cm
Winning Bid: $176
Calcite
Xinyang Mine, Xinyang, Henan Prov., China
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
13.2 x 10.4 x 9.9 cm
Winning Bid: $228
Calcite on matrix
Xianghualing Mine, Linwu Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
15.4 x 8.9 x 8.1 cm
Winning Bid: $140
Fluorite with Calcite (fluorescent classic)
Blackdene Mine, Stanhope, Durham, England, UK
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
15.8 x 11.9 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $301
Quartz with Pyrite
Cavnic Mine, Cavnic, Maramureș Co., Romania
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
15.4 x 9.0 x 4.6 cm
Winning Bid: $213
Quartz cast after Fluorite with Sphalerite
Rampgill Mine, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
15.6 x 12.5 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $1,650
Siderite ps. Pyrrhotite with Galena and Chalcopyrite
Herja Mine, Baia Mare, Maramures Co., Romania
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
13.6 x 8.2 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $317
Quartz (Faden)
Dera Ismail Khan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prov., Pakistan
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
13.7 x 6.1 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $611
Fluorite
Chenzhou, Hunan, China
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
11.5 x 8.9 x 6.5 cm
Winning Bid: $370
Berthierite - important display specimen
Herja Mine, Baia Mare, Maramures Co., Romania
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
10.1 x 8.3 x 8.1 cm
Winning Bid: $875
Fluorapophyllite-(K)
Guanajuato, Guanajuato Mun., Mexico
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
9.1 x 8.5 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $115
Quartz var. Amethyst (Scepters)
Dalbandin, Chagai Dist., Balochistan Region, Pakistan
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
13.4 x 9.4 x 5.9 cm
Winning Bid: $137
Adamite with Calcite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Mun., Durango, Mexico
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
10.7 x 6.9 x 6.0 cm
Winning Bid: $180
Grossular - unusual location
Mount Garnet, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
10.5 x 8.1 x 7.8 cm
Winning Bid: $183
Calcite with Celadonite
Iraí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
11.2 x 10.7 x 9.3 cm
Winning Bid: $135
Fluorite on Quartz
De'an Mine, Wushan, De'an Co., Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
15.7 x 9.2 x 8.9 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Epidote
Malyi Kuibas Mine, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
12.3 x 8.4 x 6.5 cm
Winning Bid: $550
Fluorite on Fluorite
Dali, Yunnan, China
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
11.1 x 9.9 x 9.1 cm
Winning Bid: $256
Fluorite
Dayu Co., Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
12.9 x 11.4 x 6.9 cm
Winning Bid: $290
Quartz var. Smoky
Astaf'evskoe quartz deposit, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
14.4 x 8.2 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $780
Manganese-bearing Calcite (fluorescent classic)
Wessels Mines, Northern Cape, South Africa
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
18.7 x 9.5 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $311
Quartz on blue Fluorite
El Hammam, Khemisset, Morocco
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
11.9 x 8.9 x 7.5 cm
Winning Bid: $900
Calcite on Pyrite, Sphalerite and Galena
Trepca complex, Mitrovica, Kosovo
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
13.1 x 12.0 x 6.6 cm
Winning Bid: $267
Calcite
Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
10.2 x 7.7 x 5.1 cm
Winning Bid: $170
Aragonite
Pachacayo Mine, Junín, Peru
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
8.9 x 8.6 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $198
Quartz on Epidote
Kharan Dist., Balochistan Region, Pakistan
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
14.3 x 8.9 x 6.0 cm
Winning Bid: $295
Calcite with unusual color centers
Xikuangshan, Lengshuijiang, Hunan, China
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
15.3 x 10.8 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $2,051
Fluorite with Quartz on Fluorite
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
12.0 x 8.7 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $845