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| The Pakistan Gallery presents specimens from the world-famous pegmatitic areas of Northern Pakistan known for its fine gem minerals as well as from neighbor Afghanistan. Included here are nice aquamarines, elbaites, twinned titanites and more. |
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WPAK-05/45 - Spessartine and tourmaline Shigar Valley, Skardu District (Northern Areas, Pakistan) A matrixless floater dodecahedral crystal of lustrous translucent to opaque dark red spessartine with an interesting etching (quite similar to the spessartines coming from Minas Gerais, Brazil in the last couple of years but less gemmy and transparent and darker colored). A few transparent colorless crystals of quartz to 1 cm. and a 2-cm. long crystal of black tourmaline associated. Some bruising with tiny nicks here and there but still a nice garnet specimen. 2.8x2.5x2.3 - 40 € |
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WPAK-05/46 - Spessartine Shigar Valley, Skardu District (Northern Areas, Pakistan) A matrixless floater dodecahedral crystal of lustrous translucent to opaque dark red spessartine with an interesting etching (quite similar to the spessartines coming from Minas Gerais, Brazil in the last couple of years but less gemmy and transparent and darker colored). A few small crystals of quartz attached. Some bruising with tiny nicks here and there but still a nice garnet specimen. 3.1x2.5x2.3 - 40 € |
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WPAK-05/47 - Spessartine and albite Shigar Valley, Skardu District (Northern Areas, Pakistan) A dodecahedral crystal of lustrous translucent to opaque dark red spessartine with an interesting etching (quite similar to the spessartines coming from Minas Gerais, Brazil in the last couple of years but less gemmy and transparent and darker colored). A few small crystals of quartz and some albite matrix attached. Some bruising with tiny nicks here and there but still a nice garnet specimen. 3.5x2.8x2.6 - 40 € |
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WPAK-06/11 - Aquamarine and albite Shigar Valley, Skardu District (Northern Areas, Pakistan) A lustrous transparent light blue 1.9x0.7-cm. crystal of aquamarine stands out on a matrix of white crystals of albite mixed with some quartz crystals to 2.5 cm. long and some muscovite at back. The aquamaine shows a nice etching on the faces and is undamaged. There is a larger blue partial crystal of aquamarine frozen at back. 4.3x4x4.9 - 125 € |
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WPAK-05/9 - Aquamarine Shigar Valley, Skardu District (Northern Areas, Pakistan) Loose doubly terminated crystal of lustrous gemmy pale blue aquamarine with faces and top termination slightly etched. Undamaged. 4.4x1.5x1.2 - 100 € |
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WPAK-05/11 - Aquamarine Shigar Valley, Skardu District (Northern Areas, Pakistan) Loose doubly terminated crystal of lustrous gemmy blue aquamarine with faces slightly etched and a complex termination. The upper 1 cm. is gemmy and transparent while the rest presents interesting whitish clouds. Some white remnants of albite at bottom. Undamaged and quite nice. 3.7x1.5x1.2 - 100 € |
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WPAK-05/12 - Aquamarine Shigar Valley, Skardu District (Northern Areas, Pakistan) Loose singly terminated crystal of lustrous gemmy transparent light blue aquamarine. Some black needles of tourmaline at bottom. Undamaged except at bottom where it was attached to the matrix. 6x1.3x0.9 - 80 € |
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WPAK-05/13 - Aquamarine Shigar Valley, Skardu District (Northern Areas, Pakistan) Loose doubly terminated crystal of lustrous gemmy transparent pale blue aquamarine. Presents three different zones with the central one being nearly flawless. The lower area shows horizontal color-zoning while the upper third presents vertical tubular inclusions (see Sinkankas, "Emerald and other beryls", p. 283, for an explanation of the origin of the latter). Presents a natural crack in the central area and a couple of small contact areas at bottom where albite crystals were once attached, otherwise undamaged. 6x1x0.8 - 90 € |
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| WMISC-03/36 - Titanite and chlorite Bagrot, Gilgit District (Northern Areas, Pakistan) Nice cluster of chlorite-included dark green titanite crystals and twins to about 2x1 cm. on albite matrix. Below these crystals there is a previous generation of titanite in small gemmy apple-green crystals and sections. A very good undamaged titanite specimen from the Himalayas. 5x3.5x3.5 - 150 € MS 12/11 |
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