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Aquamarine

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Aquamarine

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Description
Locality: 
Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.7 × 5.9 × 5.6 cm
Description

Several crystals of lustrous and nicely blue coloured aquamarine from Pakistan. They are leaning at a piece of mother rock which is then covered in muscovite crystals. The main crystal of aqua shows a fantastically terminated top which is super transparent directly below the very top. A truly esthetic ensamble.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aquamarine

Variety Of: 

Beryl

Formula: 
Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Strunz: 
9.CJ.05
Hardness: 
7.5 - 8.0
Formula: 
Be3Al2Si6O18
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Blue
Streak: 
White