Aquamarine (GEM quality crystal) (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)

Item Description

A wonderful, GEMMY, soft blue colored, textbook, hexagonal crystal of Aquamarine from the famous Shigar District in Pakistan. The piece 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 so the only real damage is on the base of the piece where it was detached from the pocket wall. As you can see, the piece is notably gemmy inside, and would honestly yield some attractive larger gemstones. The piece is priced in the inventory at $2,000, but the gem rough value of the piece is approximately $5,000 in finished stones. 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. Specimen weight is 84.52 grams. From the collection of Robert (Bob) Reynolds. Bob was a well-known fossil and mineral expert and former Curator of Earth Sciences at the San Bernardino County Museum in California. The rare phyllomanganate-chromate species Reynoldsite was named in his honor in 2011.