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Aquamarine with Albite
- Shigar, Skardu, Northern Areas, Pakistan
- Miniature, 4.3 x 1.4 x 1.3 cm
- Start Time: 12/27/2012 6:45:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 01/03/2013 6:45:00 pm (CST)
- 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 good quality, very sharp, lustrous, well-formed, gemmy, prismatic hexagonal crystal group of Aquamarine with a soft blue color and associated white crystals of Albite. Good quality and eye-catching.