MJ56AF2: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Doubly terminated and complete Phenakite crystal with a small feldspar (probably Albite) matrix. The crystal has the finely striated faces of a main prism, the smooth surfaces of a secondary prism, and the rough terminal rhombohedron. An excellent thumbnail of a species that is very uncommon at Afghanistan.
The specimen has been photographed and published as a novelty in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2017, page 69
Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan (08/2016)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.9 × 2.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.75” × 0.87”