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Apatite (gem quality) viewBack to CONSIGMENT and COLLECTION AUCTIONS - Ends July 8th

Tormiq, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
  • Starting Time:7/1/2010 06:45:00 PM(CDT)
  • Ending Time:7/8/2010 06:45:00 PM(CDT)
  • Time Left:Auction Is Closed

  • Size:Thumbnail
  • Size Description:1.8 x 1.5 x 1.0 cm

Description:An excellent, sharp, GEM quailty, colorless, tabular, single, modified hexagonal crystal with minor inclusions of Actinolite (variety "Byssolite") with associated translucent olive-oil color Epidote crystals. This is classic "Alpine-type" material from this famous cleft deposit in Pakistan. Very reminscent of classic Austrian Apatite specimens. The quality is wonderful not just for this locality, but any metamorphic deposit. A worthwhile thumbnail specimen from this contemporary classic locality.