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FT14M3: This locality is well known worldwide for its Elbaite specimens but occasionally some Fluorite specimens have been collected. The sample we are offering shows Fluorite crystals with very aerial and well defined faces and edges. Color varies between white to uncolored, with slight violet tones. On a Quartz matrix. We’ll send the Jan Buma collection card to the buyer. The sample has been noted and photographed in the monograph "Afghan Pegmatites" of the Mineralogical Record magazine on page 656 in the volume 48, number 5, September-October 2017
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province Afghanistan (±2003)
Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.7 × 2.8 cm = 2.68” × 1.85” × 1.10”
Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.67” × 0.59”
Very fluorescent long & short UV
Former Jan Buma collection. Number 030823
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