Description: This site is about the mineral collection of Fabian Wildfang. It is a privately managed site in order to establish and maintain contact to friends in the mineral hobby.
beauty (10323) museum (4704) collection (2512) minerals (1088) aesthetic (357) tourmaline (71) fine minerals (7)
The Wildfang Collection ® comprises a couple of hundreds specimens from a wide variety of mineral species. It is the result of more than 40 years of collecting minerals to my increasingly refined personal standards as outlined below. A global network of dealers, miners and other collectors helps me refine my collection over time: additions either have to offer new and unparalleled aesthetics or they have to surpass specimens already in the collection by a long shot (specimens which in turn may need to deac
A collection that carries my very personal "signature of excellence".
My focus is on the aesthetics of any specimen. Shape, grouping, color, contrast, matrix, ... there are so many aspects to it that it can hardly be covered in a simple paragraph. For that reason I have dedicated a section of this website to my personal standards of Aesthetics in Mineral Collecting.