Apatite with Clinozoisite and "Byssolite"

Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Miniature, 4.0 x 3.3 x 2.3 cm
Start Time: 10/24/2013 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 10/31/2013 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

A few excellent, sharp, GEM quailty, colorless, tabular, modified hexagonal crystals of Apatite are associated with greenish-golden prisms of Clinozoisite plus minor "hair like" crystals of of Actinolite (variety "Byssolite") on matrix. 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 miniature specimen from this contemporary classic locality. The largest Apatite measures 1.1 cm across.

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