TM9AK3: Sharp Microcline crystal, elongated and clearly twinned by the Baveno law. This specimen comes from a classic Japanese locality via the collection of Thomas P. Moore whose label we will send to the buyer.
Hirukawa, Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture, Chubu Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 4 × 0.9 × 0.9 cm = 1.57” × 0.35” × 0.35”

TAM87AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.3 × 0.8 cm = 0.67” × 0.51” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

TAB48AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2 × 0.9 cm = 0.91” × 0.79” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

TBM69AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.71” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”

TRM68AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.87” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

TXM87AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 1.2 cm = 1.34” × 1.06” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”

TFB64AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.4 × 1.7 cm = 1.89” × 0.94” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

EF21C9: The most esthetic one, with the sharp Henmilite crystal standing up in one small pocket created on the mamiliary Olshanskyite.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan (2003)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.2 × 1.5 cm = 1.77” × 1.65” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 0.45 cm = 0.18”

TZ97L5: Nice specimen from the type locality of this rare calcium copper borate. Henmilite shows well defined faces and edges with a deep blue color that contrasts with the white Olshanskyite matrix. Actually the access to the Fuka mine is strictly prohibited and controlled.
The specimen is accompanied by the label from the collection of the first specimen’s discoverer, with the handwritten notation of the date on which this specimen was extracted (February 2004). We will send the label to the buyer with this fine Henmilite.
The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 57 in the volume 91, number 1, Jan/Feb 2016
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan (14/02/2004)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.8 × 3.5 cm = 2.36” × 1.50” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

TMM69AP8: Crystals of Henmilite, a rare hydrated borate of Ca and Cu, on an Olshanskyite matrix. They are very sharp and are very intense blue in color despite being partially covered by a thin layer of a mixture of minerals, among which Calcite predominates and among which there is also a currently unidentifiable copper silicate, and it can not be ruled out that it could be a new mineral phase.
The analyses carried out attest to this mixture of species in the coating. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Fuka Mine, Fuka, Bicchu-cho (Bitchu-cho), Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.6 × 1.2 cm = 2.40” × 1.42” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

TRL56AO0: Globular growths of Rhodochrosite, on matrix, with a silky luster and an intense reddish pink color. It is associated with black Sphalerite in lamellar crystals.
The specimen comes from a classic Japanese deposit that, like many others in that country, was scarcely disclosed until its rhodochrosites became famous when they reached the international market.
Oppu Mine, Nishimeya-mura, Nakatsugaru District, Aomori Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 24.7 × 13.4 × 4.8 cm = 9.72” × 5.28” × 1.89”

TFM14AO3: Fan-shaped groups of acicular Enstatite crystals, translucent, with great luster and a golden yellow color, on a matrix of ultrabasic igneous rock.
A Japanese classic rarely seen in the mineralogical world.
Oguni-michimata, Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island  Japan

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3 × 2.1 cm = 2.13” × 1.18” × 0.83”

TXZ46AN8: Two very sharp Quartz crystals, flattened and somewhat transparent, twinned according to the Japan-law, and very aerial on a small group of other Quartz crystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Naru island (Narushima), Gotoh Islands, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu Region  Japan

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.67” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.08”

ET67AM2: Group of very sharp Axinite-(Fe) crystals with very well defined faces and edges, and large for the locality. Translucent, shiny, and brown with mauve tones. A Japanese classic.
Obira Mine, Bungo-Ohno City, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu Region  Japan

Specimen size: 6.3 × 3.6 × 2 cm = 2.48” × 1.42” × 0.79”

EFJ2AQ1: Parallel growth of Stibnite crystals with excellent terminations, lustrous, and with twists and natural curvatures. The specimen is filed along the bottom, possibly for being fitted to a base.
A classic, very difficult to find, that comes from the Valentin Sicher collection.
Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku Island  Japan

Specimen size: 9.2 × 3 × 2 cm = 3.62” × 1.18” × 0.79”

TP90AB8: Aggregate of very sharp Azurite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, extraordinarily bright and deep colored and on matrix, with botryoidal and fibrous Malachite. The sample has a better quality than the usual for the locality.
Khanong open pit, Sepon Mine, Vilabouly District, Savannakhét Province  Laos (Lao P.D.R.) (2015)

Specimen size: 9 × 6.2 × 3.3 cm = 3.54” × 2.44” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”

NL90AL5: Bright, reniform malachite growth with silky surfaces and intense color changes, which can range from darker, denser green to lighter, brighter green.
Khanong open pit, Sepon Mine, Vilabouly District, Savannakhét Province  Laos (Lao P.D.R.)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8.2 × 3.5 cm = 4.53” × 3.23” × 1.38”

VB37Z4: Translucent dipyramidal deep brown Scheelite crystal. It is bright, has polycrystalline growths and is on a white Calcite matrix with small Quartz crystals. Before the Chinese samples appeared, these Korean pieces were the "top" for the species.
Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju, Chungcheongbukdo  South Korea

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.5 × 2.6 cm = 1.06” × 0.98” × 1.02”

GV46P9: An esthetic miniature from a locality already historic. Its crystals have the dark tones typical of Korean samples, they have very well defined faces and edges and are very bright, with small coatings of white rhombohedral crystals of Calcite.
Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju, Chungcheongbukdo  South Korea (±1985)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm = 1.26” × 1.10” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.63”

TFL99AO8: Group of very sharp Scheelite crystals, dipyramidal, with very marked parallel growths, translucent, lustrous, and dark brown. In matrix, with Muscovite. A South Korean classic.
Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju, Chungcheongbukdo  South Korea

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.5 × 2.3 cm = 1.61” × 1.38” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 1.7 cm = 1.14” × 0.67”

VC99Y5: Parallel growth of two very sharp dipyramidal Scheelite crystals, more translucent and with a clearer color than usual on the samples from Korea, and with the habitual paragenesis of the mine: Quartz, Ferberite, Pyrite, Muscovite.
Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju, Chungcheongbukdo  South Korea

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.6 × 4.1 cm = 2.32” × 1.81” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.5 cm = 1.18” × 0.98”

TA59AG9: From the past comes this parallel growth of two very sharp, rich-colored Scheelite crystals. They are on a Quartz matrix, with Ferberite and small crystals of Quartz and Cassiterite.
The sample is from the Pedro Goy collection.
Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju, Chungcheongbukdo  South Korea

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.9 × 4 cm = 2.32” × 1.93” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.8 cm = 1.10” × 1.10”

TA70AH4: Elongated dipyramidal Scheelite crystals with parallel growths, more transparent than usual for Korean samples, and they are on a matrix of Quartz crystals with aggregates of Muscovite crystals. Different than other Scheelites from this mine.
The sample is from the Vallecillo collection, in Madrid.
Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju, Chungcheongbukdo  South Korea

Specimen size: 20.5 × 17.3 × 7.7 cm = 8.07” × 6.81” × 3.03”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.47”

XM2230RTF: Triplet of Quartz (amethyst variety) scepter crystals on Quartz (smoky variety) crystals with well-defined faces and edges and an intense amethyst hue on the crystal termination. A curiosity, since the specimen comes from an abandoned locality that has now been converted into an amusement park.
Eonyang, Ulju-gun, Ulsan Metropolitan City  South Korea

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.34” × 0.98” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.02” × 0.63”

EB7S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. A floater crystal of green pistachio color, with very simple forms but with a very uncommon habit, the predominance of a very well developed frontal pinacoid that results in the crystal being really smooth.
Maldin Koh, Maldin, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2011)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6.4 × 2.7 cm = 2.52” × 2.52” × 1.06”

EC47S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. A floater crystal of green pistachio color, with very simple forms but with a very uncommon habit, the predominance of a very well developed frontal pinacoid that results in the crystal being really smooth.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 29 in number 2011/2
Maldin Koh, Maldin, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2011)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.9 × 4.6 cm = 2.80” × 2.72” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.26”

EPB89AP2: Group of crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with extraordinarily bright luster and intense reddish brown tones. More transparency and general quality than what we've known until now of these axinites-(Fe) from Pakistan.
Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 7 × 5.2 × 4.5 cm = 2.76” × 2.05” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.4 cm = 1.57” × 0.94”

TPB86AN5: Partially doubly terminated crystal of Anatase with a bipyramidal habit truncated by the pinacoid. On matrix, very lustrous, translucent and with vivid bluish reflections when illuminated by an intense point source of light.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.1 × 2.1 × 1.4 cm = 0.83” × 0.83” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

EP87K1: Parallel growth of two dipyramidal crystals with flat pinacoidal terminations. Their luster is very good and they are black with bluish reflections. On matrix, with small crystals of Quartz and Albite.
Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2006)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.2 × 3.8 cm = 2.13” × 1.26” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.35” × 0.20”

EP68K1: Parallel growth of four dipyramidal crystals with flat pinacoidal terminations. The crystal is black with bluish reflections. It is on a matrix of Quartz and Albite.

Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2006)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 2.7 × 2.2 cm = 2.17” × 1.06” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

EM17K1: Very acute dipyramidal crystals, two of them dominant, with excellent luster and a considerable transparency. They are brown, an unusual color for the species, and are on a matrix of small crystals of Albite.
Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2006)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3 × 2.3 cm = 2.28” × 1.18” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.4 cm = 0.31” × 0.16”

SV190TZM: Group of very sharp dodecahedral Andradite crystals, interpenetrating, with well defined faces and edges, fine polycrystalline surfaces, with good luster and a very deep brown color, with a second generation of Andradite crystals of smaller size but very sharp, orange and translucent, accompanied by crystals of Epidote, Albite and Titanite.
Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (±2011)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.1 × 3.1 cm = 1.50” × 1.22” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.3 cm = 0.71” × 0.51”

ED98J7: Miniature of excellent quality and very esthetic. It is a parallel growth of three flat prismatic crystals on Quartz matrix. The crystals are very sharp, with a perfect definition of their faces and edges and are bright and translucent.
Mount Zard, Ras Koh Range, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm = 1.06” × 0.75” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.55”

MC69X8: Group of Brookite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, that are very well defined and have uncommon sharp and flat terminations. They are on matrix, with Quartz and small Albite crystals.
Mount Zard, Ras Koh Range, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.4 × 2.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.34” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.2 cm = 0.47” × 0.47”

MZ76H2: Translucent and of nice color, the Brookite crystals, incomplete but unbroken, sit on a bed of Quartz and Albite crystals. Some of the Quartz crystals have green inclusions enhancing the specimen.
Mount Zard, Ras Koh Range, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.5 × 2 cm = 1.81” × 1.38” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

EM83G4: A piece for a high quality collection. The parallel growth of flat, very big, Brookite crystals, gives the sensation of a unique crystal, of bigger size. The matrix is a group of Quartz crystals, the dominant one doubly terminated.
Mount Zard, Ras Koh Range, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (05/2005)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3 × 3.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.18” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.14” × 0.87”

MK17E9: The laminar crystals have great color and the Quartz that they sit on is well crystallized.
Mount Zard, Ras Koh Range, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 3 cm = 2.36” × 1.89” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.47” × 0.28”

ME98Y0: Parallel aggregate of bright Brookite crystals with deep color and very well defined phantom growths. They are implanted on a matrix of Quartz crystals. More esthetic than usual for Kharan Brookites.
Mount Zard, Ras Koh Range, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.3 × 3.5 cm = 2.52” × 1.69” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”

TR86AN0: Fan-shaped growths of Epidote crystals with a prismatic habit and sharp crystal forms, translucent, with bright luster and an intense, deep and uniform green color, on a matrix of transparent Quartz crystals.

Mount Zard lies within the Ras Koh Mountains, on the western margin of the Pakistani plateau, where metamorphic and plutonic Paleozoic–Mesozoic rocks are exposed, including granitic intrusions and contact–metasomatic zones.
Fissures, small veins, and metasomatic alteration host calc–silicate assemblages, typical of low to medium grade metamorphic environments.
Mount Zard, Ras Koh Range, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 6.9 × 2.8 × 4.5 cm = 2.72” × 1.10” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.98” × 0.59”

MD36AB8: Sharp Axinite-(Fe) crystals that are transparent, very bright, with a brown color and mauve shades and on a matrix with Albite crystals.
Nausherwani prospection, Char Kohan, Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 7.3 × 2.9 × 3.2 cm = 2.87” × 1.14” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.59” × 0.31”

MV16AN0: Thin platy Brookite crystal on Quartz matrix, doubly terminated and very sharp, with parallel growths, transparent, with bright luster, an intense red color and darker color zoning.
We will ship the specimen in the original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.71” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.24”

SM280EKF: Parallel growth of two very sharp Brookite crystals, flattened, with good definition of faces and edges, lustrous, on a matrix of Quartz crystals.
Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.1 × 3 cm = 1.85” × 1.22” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.47”

MLM26AP7: Fan-shaped growths of prismatic Epidote crystals with very sharp and profiled crystal forms and with excellent terminations. They are translucent, with good luster and an intense, deep and uniform green color, on a matrix of water-clear Quartz crystals, one of them dominant.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 2394), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (±2015)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 6.5 × 3.4 cm = 4.88” × 2.56” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.91” × 0.51”

XM90NBA: Botryoidal aggregates of Brucite on matrix with visible crystal forms, which is unusual for the species. Apart from the excellent luster, the unusual quality and intensity of the uniform lemon-yellow color stands out. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2016)

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.9 × 2.4 cm = 1.30” × 1.14” × 0.94”

NR46AE9: Botryoidal aggregates, on matrix, with some quite well defined (more than usual for the species) crystal faces and edges. Besides the good luster we note the special quality and intensity of the color, a uniform lemon yellow. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2016)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 1.50” × 1.26” × 1.02”

NM47AE9: Botryoidal aggregates, on matrix, with some quite well defined (more than usual for the species) crystal faces and edges. Besides the good luster we note the special quality and intensity of the color, a uniform lemon yellow. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2016)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 4.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.69” × 1.65” × 0.63”

NL86AE9: Botryoidal aggregates, on matrix, with some quite well defined (more than usual for the species) crystal faces and edges. Besides the good luster we note the special quality and intensity of the color, a uniform lemon yellow. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2016)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 5.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.77” × 2.05” × 0.63”

MJ77AC6: A novelty at Munich 2015. Botryoidal aggregates, on matrix, of Brucite whose crystals are very well defined for the species. They are bright and have a color between yellow and white depending on the zones. With the Brucite, there are small white crystals that are either Hydromagnesite or Dypingite. When we have the definitive analyses we’ll notify the buyer.
This specimen was published in the magazine "Lapis" number 10/2016, page 9
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (08/2015)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 6.5 × 3.9 cm = 3.19” × 2.56” × 1.54”

TXB67CD4: Group of isolated spherical aggregates, formed of Brucite crystals with an excellent brilliant luster and with an unusual quality and intensity of the uniform lemon-yellow color. Deposited on a rock matrix partially covered by sharp Dypingite crystals. Both mineral species are found in peridotites and are a product of serpentinization in a regional ophiolitic complex.
The Dypingite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analytical report to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.4 × 3.4 cm = 3.62” × 2.91” × 1.34”

MC68AC6: A novelty at Munich 2015. Botryoidal aggregates, on matrix, of Brucite whose crystals are very well defined for the species. They are bright and have a color between yellow and white depending on the zones. With the Brucite, there are small white crystals that are either Hydromagnesite or Dypingite. When we have the definitive analyses we’ll notify the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a Munich 2015 new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 105 in the volume 47, number 1
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (08/2015)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 7 × 2.9 cm = 3.78” × 2.76” × 1.14”

NBM92AP1: Floater growths of Brucite, very elongated and esthetic, with botryoidal shapes but with visible crystal forms too, better defined than usual for the species. Translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform lemon-yellow color and with lighter-colored Dypingite growths. The Dypingite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. This specimen comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (number 827), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2017)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 6.8 × 2 cm = 4.84” × 2.68” × 0.79”

EM16AM4: Botryoidal aggregates of Brucite on matrix with visible and better defined crystal forms than usual in the species. Translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform lemon-yellow color.
The specimen comes from the collection of Peter Rosewarne (number Rc953), whose label we will send to the buyer, along with a copy of the analysis.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 13.2 × 7.8 × 2 cm = 5.20” × 3.07” × 0.79”

NGX99AO2: Botryoidal growths of Brucite, with visible crystal forms, better defined than usual for the species. Translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform lemon-yellow color. On matrix, with white growths of Dypingite.
The Dypingite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2016)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 8.6 × 5.4 cm = 5.20” × 3.39” × 2.13”

LT68AK2: Groups of very elongated Brookite crystals, very sharp and of intense color, with epigenetic acicular Rutile crystals, as inclusions inside a bright and very clear colorless Quartz crystal. An excellent rarity. The sample is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 1007), whose catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Taftan, Chagai District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2013)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.7 × 1.9 cm = 1.73” × 1.06” × 0.75”

TG87AL3: Crystal with very well defined faces and edges, gem quality, transparent, bright, with a very intense and uniform color ans with black needle inclusions of Ludwigite that are typical of this deposit.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Sapat Gali (Suppat), Naran, Kaghan Valley, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.39” × 0.31”

NC67AH1: A novelty at Tucson 2018. Very aerial parallel growth, of very sharp Augite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and on matrix with Quartz crystals and mica blades.
Shalman area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan (04/2017)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3 × 1.9 cm = 1.34” × 1.18” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 1.7 cm = 1.30” × 0.67”

TCR6AO1: Floater group of two thick tabular crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very sharp crystal forms, yellowish brown color and lustrous.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.

Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2 × 1.4 × 0.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.55” × 0.24”

NT47AL4: Floater group of two Bastnäsite-(Ce) crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with sharp faces and edges, translucent, with reddish-brown reflections and associated with small white Orthoclase (variety adularia) crystals.
Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2 × 1.7 cm = 1.06” × 0.79” × 0.67”

EF27G1: An excellent miniature of this rare species. Crystal is tabular, of very intense color, good clarity and is very aerial on its matrix.
Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.3 × 1.7 cm = 1.10” × 0.91” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.35” × 0.24”

TL39H3: A jewel for an expert. Floater prismatic, doubly terminated crystal with very well defined flat faces of the pinacoid and the triangular faces of the dypyramid. Crystal is very transparent as the picture shows and has a magnificent tanned honey color.
Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 2 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.28” × 0.24”

TN54Q7: A complete crystal of Quartz with multiple lower terminations and inclusions of acicular crystals of Astrophyllite plus fine isolated and grouped crystals of Aegirine. A sharp translucent tabular crystal of Bastnäsite-(Ce) is esthetically positioned on the Quartz.
Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 10.8 × 7.8 cm = 4.84” × 4.25” × 3.07”

Main crystal size: 9.2 × 8 cm = 3.62” × 3.15”

TX56AI0: Very sharp tabular Ilmenite crystal with a predominant and very well developed pinacoid. It has fine growth striations and is very bright.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.4 × 0.1 cm = 0.83” × 0.55” × 0.04”

TB6AK5: Flattened prismatic Rutile crystal with parallel growths and fine vertical striations on the prism faces and excellent terminations, brilliant, with gold-toned internal reflections.
The specimen will be sent in the original Perky box from the Bob Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.5 × 0.9 cm = 0.67” × 0.59” × 0.35”

MV96AM6: Group of Zircon crystals on matrix, with a distinct dipyramidal habit, with a short prism, translucent, with good luster and a very intense color. We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Raikot, Chilas, Diamar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 0.87” × 0.71” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.28” × 0.20”

EB96G3: A prismatic crystal, doubly terminated, transparent and of a good color. It crosses through a thin matrix of Quartz. Certainly original.
Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (04/2005)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.1 × 4.6 cm = 1.85” × 0.83” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.83” × 0.31”

EH30AF9: Parallel growth of very sharp and doubly terminated transparent Diopside crystals that are very bright with an intense green color and a small white Albite crystal attached.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 5.7 × 2.2 × 1 cm = 2.24” × 0.87” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 1.5 cm = 1.30” × 0.59”

ND27AJ9: A complete floater crystal with flat recrystallization surfaces at the base. It is flattened with parallel growths, rich in terminal faces, very bright, transparent and has a very intense, deep and uniform color.
The sample is from the Ignacio Hernández collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.2 × 0.5 cm = 1.73” × 0.87” × 0.20”

TXY63AN3: Bundles of elongated Clinozoisite crystals, many of them doubly terminated, with excellent terminations. Between translucent and transparent, with bright luster and a uniform greenish color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 4 × 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 1.57” × 0.55” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.5 cm = 0.55” × 0.20”

TT76H3: An elegant growth of prismatic, transparent crystals of Epidote on a dense group of Diopside crystals enhanced by white Albite crystallizations.
This specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 522 in the volume 37, number 6
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.2 × 3.1 cm = 2.68” × 1.65” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.9 cm = 0.35” × 0.35”

TBA47AO3: Parallel growth of doubly terminated Diopside crystals with very sharp crystal forms and excellent terminations, very aerial and on a matrix of transparent Clinozoisite crystals and twinned Titanite crystals.
We will send the specimen to the buyer in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3.4 × 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 1.34” × 0.51” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.71” × 0.20”

EQQ87CD2: Parallel growths of well-defined, shiny, deep green Diopside crystals with associated small Titanite crystals.
With numerous intertwined crystals, its appearance is very different from other diopsides.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 5.8 × 2.6 × 2.2 cm = 2.28” × 1.02” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.6 cm = 0.55” × 0.24”

TL96X7: Parallel growths, with a very pronounced curvature, of crystals showing very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations. The crystals are translucent, very bright and have a very deep green color. They are on matrix, with transparent Calcite and white small Albite . It is really a nice and special miniature.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.7 × 3.2 cm = 2.44” × 1.85” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.5 cm = 0.47” × 0.20”

EPR28CD2: Parallel growths of well-defined, shiny, deep green Diopside crystals with associated small Titanite crystals.
With numerous intertwined crystals, its appearance is very different from other diopsides.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 6.6 × 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 2.60” × 0.83” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.20”

MR66AI8: Very sharp, flattened and twinned Titanite crystal that is translucent, has a greenish-yellow color and is on a group of Quartz crystals, the main one doubly terminated. All are transparent and rich with Chlorite inclusions.
The sample is from the Carles Manresa collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.31” × 2.52” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

TQ14AN1: Group of Vesuvianite crystals on matrix. The crystals display a very short prismatic habit, lustrous and dark in color and with a curious geometric color zoning highlighted by the contrast between the white color and extremely fine striations on the terminations and the dark tones on the prism faces.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.7 × 2.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.67” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

MW16AM8: Zoisite crystal with very sharp crystal forms and a vertical twin plane. Transparent, lustrous, gem quality, with an intense color, yellow with green reflections.
We will send the buyer the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.3 × 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.91” × 0.24” × 0.16”

MC14AM7: Topaz crystal with very sharp crystal forms, rich in terminal faces, very transparent, with good luster and a very pale salmon color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Nyet-Bruk, Nyet, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.1 × 1 cm = 1.14” × 0.43” × 0.39”

TP87AN1: Sharp Augite crystal, with very distinct parallel growths, bright luster and lively dark green reflections on the edges. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send the buyer a copy of the analysis.
Arondu, Basha Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3 × 2.1 cm = 1.42” × 1.18” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.7 cm = 1.26” × 1.06”

MM6AM7: Floater crystal of Orthoclase with very sharp crystal forms, with Carlsbad-law twinning, good luster and an unusual degree of transparency for the species.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Niaslo, Basha Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3.3 × 2 × 1.2 cm = 1.30” × 0.79” × 0.47”

MF69AK9: Group of sharp Diopside crystals with perfect terminal faces, between translucent and transparent, brilliant, very deep and uniform green color, on matrix, with Quartz.
Apo Ali Gun, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2010)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.6 × 3.7 cm = 2.91” × 1.81” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.55”

EY47W7: Aggregate on matrix of crystals with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations. They are translucent, very bright and have a deep and uniform green color.
Apo Ali Gun, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2010)

Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.3 × 3.7 cm = 3.11” × 2.09” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 0.87” × 0.59”

TEL46AO2: Topaz crystal with an unusual morphology due to its sharp terminations, very lustrous and transparent, colorless, with inclusions and small Albite crystallizations.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the collection of Robert J. (Bob) Noble, which
also contains the label.
Apo Ali Gun, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3 × 1.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.18” × 0.67” × 0.55”

TCR63AO0: Group of three trapezohedral Spessartine crystals with sharp crystal forms, translucent, with a very intense and deep red color, on a matrix of white Feldspar crystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Tigstun, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.7 × 2.1 cm = 1.06” × 0.67” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

SV460TBM: Rosette of small, very sharp tabular crystals of Ilmenite forming a spherical aggregate with very bright metallic bluish reflections, in a matrix formed by a large quantity of translucent, sharp and well-defined crystals of Albite with zones of dark color in the center of the crystals.
Tormiq Valley, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.8 × 4.3 cm = 3.86” × 3.07” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 0.75” × 0.71”

TQ14AN2: Group of Titanite crystals on Quartz, one of them clearly dominant. They are between transparent and translucent, with bright luster and an intense yellow-green color, rich in inclusions and have small coatings of Chlorite crystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Tormiq Valley, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.14” × 1.02” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.8 cm = 0.51” × 0.31”

MN26AM7: Very aerial group of sharp Titanite crystals, transparent, with bright luster and an intense green color, with areas rich in Chlorite inclusions.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Tormiq Valley, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 1.26” × 0.71” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.7 cm = 0.55” × 0.28”

TP26F0: Exsolution? Interrupted growth? There is some doubt about how this beautiful, floater Quartz formed. It has irregular crystalline forms with some flat faces, especially the rhombohedra near the tips. Very unusual.
Tormiq Valley, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (06/2003)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 2.8 × 3 cm = 2.80” × 1.10” × 1.18”

TR88AB3: Complete doubly terminated Quartz crystal on a white platy Feldspar matrix. It has very well defined left-oriented faces and exhibits Dauphiné twinning. Very esthetic due its aerial position on the Feldspar matrix.
The specimen has been published in the magazine ‘extraLAPIS’ on page 22, number 53, "Zwillinge"
Chhappu, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.3 × 4.7 cm = 3.23” × 2.09” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 7.8 × 4.2 cm = 3.07” × 1.65”

TF63J3: Curious prismatic crystal, naturally broken and rehealed in several places, with numerous curvatures and crystalline fibrous shaped sutures. The quarry from which the sample came is not well known and, probably it has been recently opened.
Chhappu, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2006)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 1.2 × 1.5 cm = 2.95” × 0.47” × 0.59”

TV46J3: A group of prismatic, naturally broken and rehealed, crystals. They have abundant curvatures and crystalline fibrous shaped sutures. Crystals are doubly terminated, with very different terminations. On one of the tips appear well defined and bright rhombohedron faces, on the other it finishes with a flat rough pedion. The quarry from which the sample came is not well known and, probably it has been recently opened.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2020, page 59
Chhappu, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2006)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 3 × 3.3 cm = 3.46” × 1.18” × 1.30”

TL26: Luster and attractive form, this Ilmenite looks much more esthetic than other specimens of this species. Plus the minor white Albite makes a nice contrast.
Tormiq Valley, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3 × 2.2 × 2 cm = 1.18” × 0.87” × 0.79”

TTW14AN3: Outstanding isolated crystal of 'Herderite', with sharp crystal forms, translucent, lustrous, and with small coatings of Quartz crystals.
We will ship the piece in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Sabsar, Indus Valley, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.75” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.9 cm = 1.02” × 0.75”

MF27K6: One of the novelties of Munich this year. Crystals are dipyramidal, have very well defined faces and edges, a considerable size, an attractive yellowish color, an excellent luster and are partially covered by a matrix of small Albite crystals.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2007 Munich Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 78, page 37.
Sassi, Indus Valley, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (08/2007)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.1 × 3.7 cm = 2.48” × 1.61” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.38” × 0.94”

MRH69AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.08” × 0.08”

MRD89AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 0.7 × 0.2 cm = 0.67” × 0.28” × 0.08”

MRG69AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 0.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.67” × 0.31” × 0.12”

MRF70AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.67” × 0.63” × 0.16”

MRE87AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.71” × 0.04” × 0.04”

MRJ67AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.75” × 0.08” × 0.08”

MRC69AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.75” × 0.20” × 0.08”

MRB98AP3: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite, a rare phosphate of beryllium and manganese, with very well defined edges and faces, fine parallel growths and good terminations. It is translucent, very lustrous and bright pink, more intense than usual in this type of specimen.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2015-2016)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 0.4 × 0.1 cm = 0.94” × 0.16” × 0.04”

ER38AK1: Very sharp crystal of Väyrynenite with very well defined faces and edges and the rarity of being doubly terminated. Two very different terminations, one of them simple and the opposite with a very visible parallel growth. The crystal is translucent, brighter than usual for the species and an intense pink color, somewhat lighter along the lateral edges.
Shakpo Mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2019)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 0.8 × 0.4 cm = 1.42” × 0.31” × 0.16”

EM13N8: Several crystals, one of them clearly dominant, and showing the typical Titanite twinning. They are on matrix, and have excellent luster and a nice green color.
Yuno, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (±2007)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.57” × 1.26” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

TD96AL4: Titanite crystal with a clearly evident contact twin, very sharp, and with well defined crystal faces. Translucent, lustrous, with an intense greenish-yellow color and just a little bit of matrix.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Biensla, Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.87” × 0.55” × 0.39”

VM47G0: Group of flat crystals, with an excellent rich green color and intense brilliance on a matrix of Calcite crystals.
Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 7 × 4.4 × 4.3 cm = 2.76” × 1.73” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.71”

TB91: A doubly terminated (although the terminations are not that sharp) powerful Diopside chromium rich. Great color and luster, a floater and complete on all sides.
Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (02/2001)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 2 cm = 2.68” × 0.79”

TF97AN2: Two Schorl crystals in parallel growth, doubly terminated, with excellent terminations, very lustrous and implanted in a group of transparent and lustrous quartz crystals that are also doubly terminated.
Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (±2006)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4.3 × 2 cm = 2.68” × 1.69” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 6.8 × 1 cm = 2.68” × 0.39”

TGR46AN6: Single crystal of Beryllonite with unusually sharp crystal forms, and with a perfect pinacoidal termination. Translucent, with a pearly luster and a snow-white color.
We will send the specimen, which comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, in its original Perky box, which also contains the label.
Bulochi (Balochi), Astor Valley, Astor District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 0.98” × 0.94” × 0.75”

MF36K4: A novelty from Munich 2007. Excellent miniature with two dipyramidal crystals of very well defined faces and edges and great color, transparency and luster. On Calcite matrix with small crystals of Mica.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference for the Zircon species in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 06/2023, page 44
Astor Valley, Astor District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2007)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.9 × 1.1 cm = 0.91” × 0.75” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

ETB87AP0: Zircon crystal, isolated, very aerial and sharp, with the crystal forms of a prism and two terminal dipyramids, one of them clearly dominant. Translucent, with bright luster and intense reddish reflections, on an Albite matrix with Mica inclusions.
Astor Valley, Astor District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 1.73” × 0.91” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.1 cm = 0.63” × 0.43”

TM46G0: Two prismatic crystals with a very good definition of forms, in which the terminal faces have a good development, a very unusual feature. At the same time the crystals are aerial, standing out on the matrix.
Astor Valley, Astor District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2000)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.3 × 4.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.30” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 2 cm = 1.50” × 0.79”

EL96X0: Very sharp flattened parallel growth of quartz crystals that are transparent, very bright and with a neatly visible "faden" growth that crosses it tip to tip.
With minor green inclusions, probably of Chlorite.
Dara Ismael Khan District, South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province  Pakistan

Specimen size: 11.6 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 4.57” × 1.34” × 0.94”

TH16H3: The crystal has a good degree of transparency and an excellent color. Faces and edges are more sharp than usual for the samples from the locality. Its position on a little matrix enhances the esthetic effect.
Sapat Gali (Suppat), Naran, Kaghan Valley, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan (2005)

Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.7 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.67” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.6 cm = 0.63” × 0.63”

MMT67AN9: Single crystal of Forsterite (peridot variety) of considerable size, with very sharp crystal forms, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform color. It sits on matrix with acicular black Ludwigite crystals.
Sapat Gali (Suppat), Naran, Kaghan Valley, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Pakistan

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.9 × 2 cm = 1.46” × 1.14” × 0.79”

TM89AD5: Single and very aerial crystal of this very uncommon borate. It has very well defined faces and edges and is colorless, translucent and bright and it is on matrix. A Hambergite of exceptional quality.
Chamachu, Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (12/2015)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.2 × 2 cm = 2.68” × 2.05” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.20”

TT96H9: Octahedral crystal of very well defined faces and edges of deep green color. We specially note the esthetic position of the crystal on the Quartz matrix.
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4 × 3.8 cm = 2.09” × 1.57” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 3.4 cm = 1.34” × 1.34”

TV47AA2: Very sharp floater Axinite-(Fe) crystal with small remnants of a feldspar matrix. The crystal is translucent, bright and has a considerable length for the locality.
Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2012)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.9 × 1.7 cm = 2.44” × 1.54” × 0.67”

NGR89AO7: Topaz crystal with very sharp crystal forms, transparent, with brilliant luster and a uniform golden brown with pink reflections on the upper terminations. On a matrix of white Albite crystals.
The specimen comes from the collection of Miguel David Martínez (number 889) whose label we will send to the buyer.
Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (±2018)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.6 × 5.1 cm = 2.64” × 1.81” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.3 cm = 1.30” × 0.91”

MD99K6: One of the novelties of Munich this year. A group of octahedral crystal of sharp faces and edges, of deep pink color and on a Muscovite matrix.
Nagar, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (09-10/2007)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.3 × 3.3 cm = 1.46” × 1.30” × 1.30”

ML46M9: Group of crystals formed by an equilibrate growth of the cube and the octahedron that are beveled by the faces of a rhombohedron. The sample has two clearly differentiate coloration, pale green and pale pink.
Nagar, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (09-10/2007)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.5 × 4 cm = 2.28” × 1.77” × 1.57”

MB29N6: Cuboctahedral crystal with polycrystalline growths on its faces. It has an abundant variety of internal colors and a residual matrix of Muscovite.
Nagar, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2008)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 6.5 × 6 cm = 2.64” × 2.56” × 2.36”

MY16AM7: Two isolated crystals of Fluorapatite with sharp crystal forms, translucent, lustrous, colorless and implanted in a group of lamellar Muscovite crystals.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Dassu, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 2.2 × 2.2 × 2.4 cm = 0.87” × 0.87” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.9 cm = 0.35” × 0.35”

ERB67ASN2: A Topaz crystal with well-defined and sharp crystal forms, transparent, very clean, and displaying a uniform golden-brown color. The Topaz sits on a matrix of white, laminar Albite crystals (cleavelandite variety) that are intergrown.
This is a very aesthetic and balanced piece.
Dassu, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.6 × 4.4 cm = 1.85” × 1.81” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 2.1 cm = 1.50” × 0.83”

TRF89AQ1: Group of octahedral Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, very sharp, transparent, with color zoning, pale green in the core of the crystal and pink on the outside. With lamellar Muscovite crystals.
Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.6 × 4.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.81” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 4  cm = 2.01” × 1.57”

EP69M8: Parallel aggregate of doubly terminated crystals, translucent and white. Excellent sample of this rare species.
Nagar, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2008)

Specimen size: 7 × 4 × 2.6 cm = 2.76” × 1.57” × 1.02”

NB11F7: The crystals of Grossular have not developed completely, but their brilliance and definition are very attractive and the contrast with the white Calcite gives the whole thing a neat esthetic look.
Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (1997)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.9 × 3.7 cm = 2.09” × 1.93” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79”

MFE47AP6: Growth of two doubly terminated Elbaite crystals with excellent terminations, between transparent and translucent, of a uniform yellowish green color and on an Albite matrix.
Shengus (Shingus), Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.65” × 1.65” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1 cm = 1.65” × 0.39”

EH87AM4: Doubly terminated crystal of Spodumene (variety kunzite) translucent, lustrous, with an intense and uniform mauve color, on matrix, with lamellar Albite crystals (variety cleavelandite).
The specimen is from the Peter Rosewarne collection (number Rc369), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Nuristan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 7.6 × 5.7 × 4.9 cm = 2.99” × 2.24” × 1.93”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 2 cm = 1.65” × 0.79”

LB10F6: The crystal has excellent color, is quite transparent and has very well- defined faces. A small area in the center where there was a contact does not detract from the attractiveness of this quite large specimen.
From the David Lucas collection (no. 218) and it comes with his label.
Nuristan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 10.2 × 3.8 × 1.5 cm = 4.02” × 1.50” × 0.59”

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”

NB88AI4: Single partially doubly terminated brown Manganotantalite crystal with reddish reflections and well defined faces and edges. On a Quartz matrix. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Kantiwa pegmatite, Wama District (Vama District), Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (09/2017)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4 × 3.7 cm = 2.60” × 1.57” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 2.7 cm = 2.28” × 1.06”

EP73T8: An individual crystal of Pollucite of exceptional size, dodecahedral, with very well defined faces and edges, on an Albite matrix with small yellowish green crystals of Elbaite. A sample worthy of any great collection.
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 11.3 × 9 × 9.5 cm = 4.45” × 3.54” × 3.74”

NT37AG7: A novelty at Expominer 2017. Dodecahedral Grossular crystals, between translucent and transparent, bright, with a uniform green color and on matrix, with white acicular Pectolite crystals and a group of Ilmenite crystals.
Khost, Khost District, Khost Province  Afghanistan (03/2017)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4 × 2.2 cm = 2.44” × 1.57” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.28” × 0.28”

TD66AL4: Matrix group of short prismatic Fluorapatite crystals, most of them doubly terminated, translucent, with a deep violet color and good luster.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Dara-i-Pech pegmatite, Chapa Dara District, Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.87” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.35” × 0.20”

TTM14AN6: Spodumene crystal very rich in crystal forms, transparent, lustrous, colorless and implanted on a Quartz crystal (smoky variety)
We will send the specimen, which comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, in its original Perky box, which also contains the label.
Kunar Valley (Konar), Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.87” × 0.63” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.28”

TXM56AO0: Complete floater crystal of Spodumene with very sharp crystal forms, transparent, pale green with yellowish tones, and with a bright luster.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Kunar Valley (Konar), Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 3.2 × 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 1.26” × 0.35” × 0.28”

EZ92Y6: Single crystal with very well-defined faces and edges of the trapezohedron and the dodecahedron. It is unusually transparent and sits on a matrix of crystallized Albite.
A magnificent sample of a species difficult to obtain in crystals of such high quality.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.5 × 2.3 cm = 2.28” × 1.77” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 3.1 cm = 1.30” × 1.22”

ME37E9: A prismatic crystal that is a neat pink color, doubly-terminated, a floater, with a complex upper termination that has a rough look due to the recrystallization, and the bottom end has inclined faces. It is very clearly a twin on a plane that is parallel to the front face. There is also some associated Schorl. Really cute.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (2003)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.97” × 1.42” × 0.87”

TDX68AP9: Spodumene crystals, one of them with very sharp crystal forms, transparent, with good luster and an intense and uniform pink color (kunzite variety).
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 5.9 × 2.2 × 2.1 cm = 2.32” × 0.87” × 0.83”

ER90AI7: Floater parallel pair of doubly-terminated Spodumene (kunzite variety) crystals with very sharp faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, with an intense color and with an associated small group of white Albite crystals.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (±2004)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 2.9 × 1.7 cm = 5.20” × 1.14” × 0.67”

TA16AJ0: Single crystal that has an elongated prismatic shape and very well defined faces and edges. It is transparent, bright, has a very intense honey color and is on a marble matrix. The crystal has curious “interruptions” and deviations due to tectonic effects.
The sample is from the John S. White mineral reserve (reg. 26-5-1), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.01” × 1.65” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 0.9 cm = 1.06” × 0.35”

TFG47AP9: Group of Chondrodite crystals, on matrix, with very sharp crystal forms (for the species), one of them clearly dominant, translucent and with an intense red color.
Ladjuar Medam, Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.3 × 2 cm = 1.34” × 0.91” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

MH86AI5: Dodecahedral Lazurite crystal with very well-defined faces and edges, featuring a deep, uniform color, set on a Calcite matrix.
This specimen was part of the Carles Manresa collection.
Ladjuar Medam, Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.3 × 5.1 cm = 2.09” × 1.69” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.67”

TM68D8: We waited a while before offering Afghanites on our web site. Ones we have seen before were either two expensive, not very esthetic, or a pale color. Finally we were able to locate the examples we were looking for: very esthetic, aerial crystals, intensely colored, perfect, and not too highly priced. A definitive sample, with a large main crystal standing well out from the matrix and accompanied by another small crystal. It all stands out well from the white Calcite matrix.
Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan (2001)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.61” × 0.91” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.43”

TVR30XXX: Afghanite on a Calcite matrix with Muscovite and Pyrite, with a main crystal that stands out for its good size, intense blue color, and for being very aerial on the matrix. The well-individualized crystal, strongly contrasting with the light-colored Calcite, gives the specimen a higher quality than is usual for this species.

Sar-e-Sang is known for its lapis lazuli mineralization, developed in metamorphosed carbonate rocks, mainly marbles, related to contact metamorphic processes. Afghanite occurs associated with these mineralizations, together with Calcite and other minerals such as Lazurite, Diopside, Phlogopite, and Pyrite, formed as a result of the interaction between the carbonate rocks and fluids rich in different elements.
Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6 × 4 cm = 2.52” × 2.36” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.1 cm = 1.38” × 0.83”

EBB27AP3: Complete crystal of Lazurite with a very vivid and uniform blue color arranged aerially on a matrix formed of Calcite, partially metamorphosed to marble, with dodecahedral faces and very sharp edges.
From the classic locality par excellence for this species.
Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 3.3 × 3 × 2.9 cm = 1.30” × 1.18” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.94”

EPQ89AP2: Two rhombododecahedral crystals of Lazurite of good size, on Calcite matrix, with very sharp crystal forms and an intense and vivid color.
This specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.3 × 3 cm = 2.40” × 1.69” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 1.34” × 0.94”

TLP28AP2: Growth on Calcite matrix of rhombododecahedral crystals of Lazurite, of great size for the deposit. The crystal forms are not perfect, but are sharp, with an intense and vivid color.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 8.8 × 7.1 × 4.4 cm = 3.46” × 2.80” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.77” × 1.34”

TR90E4: Two parallel crystal of Spodumene, which are floaters, doubly terminated, have good transparency, are of an unusual greenish yellow color, and have a particular feature: they are associated with and partially covered by small crystals of Fluorapatite, which has good color itself. The upper tips of the Spodumenes are very well defined.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (2003)

Specimen size: 12.2 × 3.2 × 2.9 cm = 4.80” × 1.26” × 1.14”

MB92W5: Isolated crystal of Spodumene (Kunzite variety), on Albite matrix. The faces and edges of the prism are very well defined and the termination of the crystal is typically polycrystalline and rough. The Kunzite is very bright and shows an especially dense and uniform color. We note that samples of Spodumene on matrix are quite unusual.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 12.9 × 9.3 × 7.5 cm = 5.08” × 3.66” × 2.95”

Main crystal size: 8 × 6 cm = 3.15” × 2.36”

ED68F4: Attractive group of numerous, very brilliant crystals that have sharply defined faces on their terminations. These are supported by a matrix of Muscovite and Limonite concretions. It is a floater specimen.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.7 × 5.5 cm = 2.95” × 2.24” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.1 cm = 0.51” × 0.43”

TP56Z7: Aggregate of crystals with well-defined faces and edges, and their pinacoidal termination is well developed. They are between translucent and transparent, and have a very vivid, intense and uniform color.

Jagdalek is a mineralized zone hosted in hydrothermal veins and shear zones within metamorphic rocks, related to beryllium-bearing fluids linked to regional pegmatitic and intrusive activity. In addition to emeralds, the deposit is also known for Corundum (variety ruby) associated with metamorphic and metasomatic processes in aluminum-rich levels. Structurally controlled mineralization with well-formed crystals in fractures and cavities.
Jagdalek Mine, Jagdalek area, Surobi District, Kabul Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 1.5 × 0.8 × 1.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.31” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.35” × 0.28”

EH49W7: Sharp thick tabular spinel-twinned crystal. It is uniformly translucent, with an intense and uniform red color and it is on a Calcite matrix.
Jagdalek Mine, Jagdalek area, Surobi District, Kabul Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.4 × 2 cm = 1.89” × 1.34” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.55”

EQ87R3: Translucent, bright single crystal with sharp, well-defined faces and of considerable size, showing a prismatic habit with marked longitudinal striations. The luster is vitreous to silky.
This species, belonging to the inosilicate subclass, is rare, especially in crystals of this size and quality.

The Koksha Valley is a mountainous region historically known for its gemstone deposits. This valley forms part of the classical Sar-e-Sang area, one of the most renowned localities in the world for its lazurites (lapis lazuli), exploited since antiquity.

From a geological point of view, the area corresponds to high-grade metamorphic units, with marbles and gneisses in which mineralizations associated with metasomatic and metamorphic processes develop. The paragenesis is characteristic, with the presence of lapis lazuli (a rock composed predominantly of Lazurite), together with Pyrite, Calcite, and other associated silicates, in a context that has given rise to some of the most historically well-known gem materials.
Koksha pegmatite field, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan (±2004)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3.1 × 1.8 cm = 1.34” × 1.22” × 0.71”

TH97E1: This is an excellent Hackmanite (a variety of Sodalite) with large crystal size, well defined, and magnificent color. It is also well positioned on the Matrix of Winchite, which gives great contrast. As is usual the fluorescence is great. It is a floater.
Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan (2001)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.9 × 3.8 cm = 1.54” × 1.54” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.83”

DR59I1: The gemmy quality of this miniature is surprising, both for its transparency and its esthetic color. We also note the definition of faces and edges of the prismatic crystal.
Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan (2004)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.28” × 0.24”

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”