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MD16L7: Doubly terminated Spodumene crystal with very sharp faces that is not so common for the species. Transparency and color are excellent. The matrix with Quartz and Albite makes an attractive display specimen. The sample has been noted and photographed in the monograph "Afghan Pegmatites" of the Mineralogical Record magazine on page 664 in the volume 48, number 5, September-October 2017
Mawi Pegmatite, Nilaw-Kolum area, Du Ab District, Nuristan Province Afghanistan (±1990)
Specimen size: 10.7 × 4 × 3.5 cm = 4.21” × 1.57” × 1.38”
Main crystal size: 10.7 × 4 cm = 4.21” × 1.57”
Fluorescent long & short UV
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