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Vesuvianite (cat's eye terminations) 
Back to CONSIGNMENT and COLLECTION AUCTIONS - Ends June 17th
Hashupa, Shigar Valley, Baltistan, Nortern Areas, Pakistan
- Starting Time:6/10/2010 06:45:00 PM(CDT)
- Ending Time:6/17/2010 06:45:00 PM(CDT)
Time Left:Auction Is Closed
- Size:Toenail
- Size Description:3.1 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm
Description:These are some of the more attractive and unusual Vesuvianite crystals to come out of any "Alpine cleft" locality. This piece features several excellent quality, sharp, lustrous, gemmy, "root beer" colored prisms of Vesuvianite with strange "straw"-colored "cat's eye" terminations. It is reminiscent of Tourmaline crystals that I have seen from Brazil with the same "cat's eye" effect at the tips of the crystals. The Vesuvianites are associated with a minor amount of bladed, green-grey color Clinochlore crystals. The Vesuvianites are certainly uncharacteristic for the species !
