Aquamarine (unsually fluorescent!) on Muscovite

Item Description

There are a lot of localities for Aquamarine these days, but the specimens from the famous and now classic Pingwu Mine at Mt Xuebaoding are truly unique and still as impressive as when they first started coming out 20 years ago. The combination of their unique tabular habit and exceptional quality makes them incredibly desirable and rare. This wonderful and highly aesthetic small cabinet specimens hosts a group of very sharp, lustrous, gemmy, soft icy blue colored, tabular hexagonal crystals of Aquamarine measuring 3.1 cm across which are beautifully set atop a bed of silvery-beige colored blades of Muscovite Mica with associated Quartz. The Aqua group features several crystals in a beautiful formation, and they are so elegantly free standing atop the piece. It's hard to find such good quality crystals that are standing UP like this from Pingwu. I can't see any damage with the naked eye, but there might be a tiny imperfection on the top edge that you can't really see without magnification, but the aesthetics leave nothing to be desired. Lastly, and perhaps most notably, the Aquamarine crystals display a glowing icy blue flourescence under SW UV light, which is quite rare for Beryl in my experience, especially gem quality crystals like this. A fantastic display specimen of this wonderful material from this unique locality in China. Valued at $1,750 in the inventory.