Aquamarine (GEM quality)

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 superb quality, very sharp, lustrous, well-formed, GEM (water clear), prismatic hexagonal crystal of Aquamarine with a soft blue color and associated cream colored Albite. Despite a small amount of superficial roughness on the Aqua prism, the piece is still valued at $2000 retail.