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Aquamarine
- Shigar, Skardu, Northern Areas, Pakistan
- Miniature, 4.0 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm
- Start Time: 06/24/2010 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 07/01/2010 6:52:32 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
When it comes to Aquamarine, Pakistan is the most productive country for specimens in the modern age of mineral collecting. Some of the very finest quality Aquamarine specimens come from the various pegmatites in the Pakistani Himalayas, especially in the Shigar Valley. This piece hosts a few good quality, sharp, gem crystals of Aquamarine with good luster and a soft blue color sitting on blocky white Albite crystal matrix.