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Apatite (gem quality)
- Tormiq, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
- Thumbnail, 1.8 x 1.5 x 1.0 cm
- Start Time: 07/01/2010 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 07/08/2010 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
An excellent, sharp, GEM quailty, colorless, tabular, single, modified hexagonal crystal with minor inclusions of Actinolite (variety "Byssolite") with associated translucent olive-oil color Epidote crystals. This is classic "Alpine-type" material from this famous cleft deposit in Pakistan. Very reminscent of classic Austrian Apatite specimens. The quality is wonderful not just for this locality, but any metamorphic deposit. A worthwhile thumbnail specimen from this contemporary classic locality.