Aquamarine (GEM quality) on Albite (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)

Item Description

A wonderful, GEMMY, soft blue colored, prismatic hexagonal crystal of Aquamarine on Albite from the famous Shigar District in Pakistan. The Aqua crystal has wonderful luster on the prism faces, along with the basal termination. If you look closely, you might think the edges of the crystal are chipped, but it's actually tiny and graceful flowing hydrothermal etching patterns, and even the base of the crystal is "re-healed" (re-crystallized), so it's terminated on both ends. The crystal sits beautifully on a small amount of lustrous, blocky, snow-white Albite crystals. As you can see, the top of the crystal is notably gemmy inside, and would honestly yield some attractive gemstones. The piece is priced in the inventory at $2,000. This area has produced some of the most iconic Aquamarine crystals in the world in terms of supreme gemminess and excellent crystal form, and this piece is a great example of said material. From the collection of Brian Kosnar.