Mineral Specimens - page 14
Asia (excl. China) - Australia

ET97AI8: An extraordinary group of Beryl (aquamarine variety) crystals with very well defined faces and edges and some of them doubly terminated, with flat pinacoidal terminations. They are very clear and bright with a nice sky blue color. On a matrix of Muscovite crystals. Truly a museum piece.
Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 9.8 × 8 × 7.5 cm = 3.9” × 3.1” × 3.0”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 3.4 cm = 1.5” × 1.3”

NY37AG7: A single crystal, on feldspar matrix, that is very bright, very rich in terminal faces, with a uniform blue color and on Feldspar matrix.
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (05/2017)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5 × 2.6 cm = 2.4” × 2.0” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 5 × 0.9 cm = 2.0” × 0.4”

MZ7AF0: Complete Beryl crystal (aquamarine variety), partially doubly terminated, clear and bright with a pale blue color and on a Quartz matrix, with Muscovite.
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (06/2016)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 3.4 × 3 cm = 2.5” × 1.3” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 1.1 cm = 1.9” × 0.4”

MF99AF8: Doubly terminated Beryl (aquamarine variety) crystals. They are very clear, have a very uniform blue color and are on a curious matrix, a white and very sharp floater Microcline crystal with small Quartz crystals.
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (06/2016)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.5 × 3.7 cm = 2.8” × 2.2” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.4” × 0.6”

MT46AF0: Beryl crystal (aquamarine variety) of a good length and thickness, with blue color zoning and on an Albite matrix with Schorl and leafy clusters of Muscovite.
Dassu, Braldu Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (± 2015)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 8.3 × 5.8 cm = 4.2” × 3.3” × 2.3”

Main crystal size: 10.4 × 2.8 cm = 4.1” × 1.1”

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 Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.3” × 2.5” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

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 Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 5.7 × 2.2 × 1 cm = 2.2” × 0.9” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 1.5 cm = 1.3” × 0.6”

MH66S9: Very sharp crystals of very well defined faces and edges. They are transparent, bright and have a slightly pink color, being on a Quartz matrix with leafy aggregates of Muscovite.
Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2.8 × 3.9 cm = 1.8” × 1.1” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.7” × 0.5”

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.
Chhappu, Braldu Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2006)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 3 × 3.3 cm = 3.5” × 1.2” × 1.3”

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, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2012)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.9 × 1.7 cm = 2.4” × 1.5” × 0.7”

ME89K6: One of the novelties of Munich this year. An octahedral crystal with cube faces. The pink color is deeper on the cube faces. It is on Muscovite matrix with small Schorl crystals.
Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (09-10/2007)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.2 × 3.1 cm = 1.9” × 1.3” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.3” × 1.2”

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, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (09-10/2007)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.5 × 4 cm = 2.3” × 1.8” × 1.6”

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 = 0.8” × 0.6” × 0.0”

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 = 1.5” × 1.3” × 1.0”

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 = 1.8” × 2.0” × 0.6”

EA86S9: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Group of crystals, of pistachio green 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 crystals are bright and deep green, almost black.
Raywoo Mine, Quetta District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2011)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.9 × 3 cm = 2.0” × 1.9” × 1.2”

EF87T2: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011. Floater group of pistachio green color but with a very unusual habit, pseudo-octahedral, and with a feebly developed frontal pinacoid.
Raywoo Mine, Quetta District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2011)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 6.4 × 6.4 cm = 3.8” × 2.5” × 2.5”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 4.6 cm = 2.2” × 1.8”

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.
Zard Mountain, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.4 × 2.6 cm = 1.8” × 1.3” × 1.0”

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

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.
Zard Mountain, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.5 × 2 cm = 1.8” × 1.4” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

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

Specimen size: 6 × 4.8 × 3 cm = 2.4” × 1.9” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.7 cm = 0.5” × 0.3”

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.
Zard Mountain, Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan (2004)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.3 × 3.5 cm = 2.5” × 1.7” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.5” × 0.2”

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 = 2.1” × 1.3” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

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 Mine, Char Kohan, Kharan, Kharan District, Balochistan (Baluchistan)  Pakistan

Specimen size: 7.3 × 2.9 × 3.2 cm = 2.9” × 1.1” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.6” × 0.3”

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 = 2.4” × 1.6” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.3” × 0.3”

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 = 0.8” × 0.7” × 0.9”

MH86AI5: Dodecahedral Lazurite crystal with very well defined faces and edges, with a very deep and uniform color and on a Calcite matrix.
The sample is from the Carles Manresa collection whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Ladjuar Medam, Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan Province  Afghanistan

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.3 × 5.1 cm = 2.1” × 1.7” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.7 cm = 0.7” × 0.7”

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 = 2.6” × 1.6” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 2.7 cm = 2.3” × 1.1”

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.
Konar Province (Kunar)  Afghanistan (±2004)

Specimen size: 13.2 × 2.9 × 1.7 cm = 5.2” × 1.1” × 0.7”

TP62AD2: Aggregate of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant. They are very rich in Chlorite inclusions except in the terminal areas, where they are free of inclusions and completely transparent.
Ganesh Himal, Dhading District, Bagmati Zone  Nepal (2014)

Specimen size: 8 × 3.1 × 2.5 cm = 3.1” × 1.2” × 1.0”

TF69AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Extraordinarily sharp Japan Law twin with very well defined and transparent crystals. We note that the Japan Law twin, already rare, is even more rare in Alpine type crevices where this Quartz is formed. The sample is a floater with a recrystallized base.
The specimen has been published in the magazine ‘extraLAPIS’ on page 26, number 53, "Zwillinge"
Arun Valley, Mount Makalu, Mahalangur Himalayas  Nepal (2014)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.2 × 2.2 cm = 2.1” × 2.0” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.8” × 1.0”

TJ88AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Extraordinarily sharp Japan Law twin with very well defined and transparent crystals. We note that the Japan Law twin, already rare, is even more rare in Alpine type crevices where this Quartz is formed. The sample is a floater with a recrystallized base.
Arun Valley, Mount Makalu, Mahalangur Himalayas  Nepal (2014)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.6 × 1.5 cm = 2.5” × 2.2” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 6 × 3 cm = 2.4” × 1.2”

TH29AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Extraordinarily sharp Japan Law twin with very well defined and transparent crystals. We note that the Japan Law twin, already rare, is even more rare in Alpine type crevices where this Quartz is formed. The sample is a floater with a recrystallized base.
Arun Valley, Mount Makalu, Mahalangur Himalayas  Nepal (2014)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6 × 3.4 cm = 2.5” × 2.4” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.2” × 1.3”

TG89AB2: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Extraordinarily sharp Japan Law twin with very well defined and transparent crystals. We note that the Japan Law twin, already rare, is even more rare in Alpine type crevices where this Quartz is formed. The sample is a floater with a recrystallized base.
Arun Valley, Mount Makalu, Mahalangur Himalayas  Nepal (2014)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 6.6 × 2.2 cm = 2.6” × 2.6” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 6.7 × 2.8 cm = 2.6” × 1.1”

TX68Q0: Group of crystals of very well defined faces and edges, very clear and of a beautiful blue color, with phantom growths and with groups of leafy crystals of Muscovite.
Kangchenjunga, Taplejung District, Mechi Zone  Nepal (06/2009)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.7” × 0.9” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.9 cm = 1.7” × 0.7”

MA70AI7: Aggregates of cyclic twins of Cerussite crystals, between laminar and tabular, that are finely bordered by very thin and prismatic-shaped Mimetite microcrystals with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed and shown to be a rare chromium-rich variety. We'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Nakhlak Mine, 200 m.↓, Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 4.8 × 4.4 cm = 3.4” × 1.9” × 1.7”

EF68AC2: Different and aesthetic. Aggregates of cyclic twins with Cerussite crystals that are laminar and tabular, and are finely bordered by very thin and acute Mimetite microcrystals with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed in depth and have proven to be the rare chromium-rich variety. We'll send copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Nakhlak Mine, 200 m.↓, Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.3 × 3.4 cm = 2.1” × 1.7” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 2.8 cm = 1.9” × 1.1”

EH48AC2: Different and aesthetic. Aggregates of cyclic twins with Cerussite crystals that are laminar and tabular, and are finely bordered by very thin and acute Mimetite microcrystals with a very vivid orange-red color. These Mimetites have been analyzed in depth and have proven to be the rare chromium-rich variety. We'll send copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Nakhlak Mine, 200 m.↓, Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (01/2015)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3.7 × 2.7 cm = 2.4” × 1.5” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.7” × 1.0”

TE57AE7: Very sharp Mimetite crystals that are mostly tabular, with a yellowish-orange color, translucent, extraordinarily bright and on a matrix of white Calcite crystals.
Gowd Mine, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.9 × 3.5 cm = 1.4” × 1.1” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

TA87AD4: Aggregate, on matrix, of thick tabular Mimetite crystals, many of them doubly terminated. They have a bright lemon yellow color with slightly orange shades. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Gowd Mine, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.2 × 2.3 cm = 2.0” × 1.7” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”

TB88AD4: Aggregate, on matrix, of thick tabular Mimetite crystals, many of them doubly terminated. They have a bright lemon yellow color with slightly orange shades. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Gowd Mine, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.5 × 3.2 cm = 2.5” × 2.2” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

TC50AD4: Aggregate, on matrix, of thick tabular Mimetite crystals, many of them doubly terminated. They have a bright lemon yellow color with slightly orange shades. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Gowd Mine, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.2 × 4.3 cm = 2.8” × 2.4” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

TK27AE6: Floater aggregate with multiple twins of very sharp crystals that are between laminar and tabular, transparent, very bright and more neat and perfect than most of the samples from this locality.
Nakhlak Mine, 180 m.↓, Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.3 × 3.1 cm = 1.6” × 1.3” × 1.2”

TD87AD4: Multiple twins of very sharp laminar crystals, one of them clearly dominant, transparent and very bright. More beautiful and perfect than usual for samples from this locality.
Nakhlak Mine, 180 m.↓, Madan-e Nakhlak, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.7” × 1.3” × 1.2”

MD86AC9: A novelty at Munich 2015. Dendritic growths of Willemite after Descloizite that, as a novelty, have partial coatings of small barrel-shaped Mimetite crystals with an intense reddish yellow color.
Chah Milleh Mine, Chah Milleh, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.5 × 3 cm = 1.7” × 1.4” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.8” × 0.6”

MJ67AF0: Arborescent growths of Willemite crystals pseudomorphous after Descloizite that have partial coatings of small barrel-shaped Mimetite crystals with an intense reddish yellow color.
Chah Milleh Mine, Chah Milleh, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.8 × 2.9 cm = 2.2” × 1.9” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.7 cm = 1.2” × 0.7”

MC60AC6: A novelty at Munich 2015. Arborescent growths of Willemite crystal pseudomorphous after Descloizite that, as a novelty, have partial coatings of small barrel-shaped Mimetite crystals with an intense reddish yellow color.
Chah Milleh Mine, Chah Milleh, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 7.6 × 7.4 cm = 3.9” × 3.0” × 2.9”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 3.4 cm = 1.7” × 1.3”

MF6AC5: Aggregate of two tabular crystals. They are translucent, very bright, have an extraordinarily vivid and intense red color and are on a small matrix.
Chah Kharboze Mine, Chah Kharboze, Anarak District, Nain, Isfahan Province  Iran (08/2015)

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.6” × 0.4” × 0.3”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1.1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”

TQ76AD9: Andradite (demantoid variety) crystals that are distinctly isolated. They display very well defined trapezohedral and dodecahedral forms and they are bright, and have a very intense and deep green color.
Belqeys Mountain, Takab, West Azerbaijan Province  Iran (03/2016)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.4” × 1.7” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”

ED13AF5: A novelty at Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2017. A group, on a rocky matrix, of bright trapezohedral crystals that have very well defined faces and edges. The color, orange-red, is selectively distributed over some faces.
Mount Kahovan, Moalleman, Qohab-e Rastaq, Amirabad District, Damghan, Torud Region, Semnan Province  Iran (2017)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.9 × 3.2 cm = 1.8” × 1.5” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”

TX71X5: Crystal of this rare borate of which very few significant samples are known. With very well defined faces and edges, the crystal shows a very well developed hexagonal prism that is almost completely coated by small crystals of red Corundum.
Hinthar Hill, Wet-loo, Kyauk-Pyat-That, Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Division  Burma

Specimen size: 3.4 × 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 1.3” × 0.3” × 0.3”