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Albite Feldspar Crystal w/t Pegmatite Minerals
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Albite Feldspar Crystal is 2 inch by
1 1/2 inch. The complex pegmatite mineral specimen from Pakistan has
gemmy blue tourmaline, three sets of twinned phenakite crystals, and
corroded columbite with other micro crystals of rare earth minerals. |
| Item Number: albpak03 |
Price: $ 34.00 |
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Aquamarine Mineral Specimen
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A 1 3/8 inch deep blue aquamarine is
embedded in feldspar and quartz with areas of black metallic blems.
There is a grouping of twinned phenakite crystals (top of photo) that
are slightly corroded. Location: Hunza, Pakistan |
| Item Number: aquaqpk06 |
Price: $ 38.00 |
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Aquamarine Crystal
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1 3/8 inch by 9/16 inch aquamarine crystal
is a vibrant shade of blue. The opaque aquamarine is embedded in albite
feldspar with mica and a few tiny black prisms, 2 inch by 1 1/4 inch
by 7/8 inch. Location: Hunza, Pakistan. |
| Item Number: aquapk17 |
Price: $ 28.00 |
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Beryls, Topaz and Mica
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A matrix of milky blue aquamarine is
covered with clear lustrous beryls and topaz. A variety of crystal
forms accent the clarity and brilliant luster of the gem crystals.
Flashy silver books of muscovite mica are tucked between the topaz
and beryl. 2 1/2 inch by 2 inch by 1 1/4 inch, from Pakistan. |
| Item Number: pkbrtp01 |
Price: $ reserved |
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Aquamarine, Quartz, Black Tourmaline
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2 1/2 inch by 2 1/4 inch by 2 inch
thick specimen is cleavlandite albite crystals filled with black tourmaline
crystals including a 1 3/4 inch tourmaline prism. The tourmaline is
embedded below a 3/4 inch by 9/16 inch light blue, icy beryl that
is centered in a bed of stocky clear quartz crystals. To the left
of the black tourmaline crystals is a gemmy light blue aquamarine
crystal. The quartz crystals are clear with mirror flashes on faces
that have horizontal quilted striations. Location: Hunza, Pakistan |
| Item Number: berypk16 |
Price: $ 75.00 |
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White Beryl Crystal in Matrix
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The white beryl hexagon crystal is 3/4
inch across. 3/4 inch is above the albite feldspar matrix and remnants
of beryl with unusual crystal forms are on the reverse side. Some
books of mica and other crystals are also present on the1 7/8 inch
by 2 inch by 1 1/4 inch Hunza, Pakistan. |
| Item Number: brywht01 |
Price: $ 25.00 |
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Diopside Crystals
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Green diopside crystals are light green
and dark chrome green flat prisms with pointed terminatios.Crystals
up to 1/2 inch long cover on side of the specimen. The bottom side
is solid and fibrous, possibly cabochon cutting material. 2 inch by
1 3/4 inch by 1 1/2 inch thick |
| Item Number: dioppk02 |
Price: $ 33.00 |
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Epidote Crystals
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Clear brown green epidote crystals are
two sets parallel prisms joined at the bases like a mirror image.
1 1/4 inch by 1 inch by 3/16 inch. |
| Item Number: epidpk01 |
Price: $ 68.00 |
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Epidote Crystals
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Sheaves of slender 1/4 inch wide epidote
prisms are ingrown into a cluster that is 2 1/2 inch by 1 1/8 inch
by inch 7/8 inch . |
| Item Number: epidpk02 |
Price: $ 18.00 |
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Twinned Spesserite Garnets
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Twinned red spesseritegarnet crystals
1 inch across are in a quartz, mica, and garnet matrix. The garnet
mineral specimen is from Gilgit, Pakistan. |
| Item Number: garpak11 |
Price: $ 40.00 |
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Cranberry Red Spesserite Garnets
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Lustrous cranberry red, Spesserite garnets
are in a matrix of darker garnet, mica and other dark high iron low
silicate mineral crystals. The top of the Pakistan mineral specimen
has a frosting of drusy quartz. 1/4 inch garnet in 1 1/2 inch by 1
1/2 inch matrix. |
| Item Number: garpak09 |
Price: $ 26.00 |
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Andradite Garnets, Pakistan
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The 31 gram crystalline mass has a matrix
of garnet and peridot. Well-formed, orange-brown crystals are present
on one face of the 1 1/4 inch by 1 1/4 inch by 7/8 inch garnet specimen
from Pakistan. The garnet interior produces luminous sparks. The exterior
is crisp crystal faces with a mirror finish. |
| Item Number: garpak02 |
Price: $ 25.00 |
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Almandine and Spesserite Garnets, Pakistan
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Red Almandine gasrnets with a few small
orange spesserite garnets are in quartz and feldspar matrix. The mineral
specimen from Gilgit Pakistan has a main grouping of garnet crystals
that are 3/4 inch by 3/8 inch with an overall size of 2 1/4 inch by
1 1/2 inch by 1 1/4 inch. There is a flat side cut for easy display. |
| Item Number: garpak10 |
Price: $ 33.00 |
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Lapis Crystals, Afghanistan
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Lazurite (lapis) crystals up to 1/2
inch are embedded in marble. The Afghan mineral specimen has been
saw trimmed to 3 inch by 1 3/4 inch by 1 1/4 inch. |
| Item Number: lapisx10 |
Price: $ 90.00 |
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Lapis Crystals, Afghanistan
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Lazurite (lapis) crystal 1/2 inch is
embedded in marble, lapis and pyrite matrix. The Afghan mineral specimen
is 3 1/2 inch by 2 1/2 inch by 1 3/4 inch. |
| Item Number: lapisx11 |
Price: $ 27.00 |
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2 Pyrites from Pakistan
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A 3/8 in pyritohedron crystal in calcite
and a 3/4 globular cluster of pyrite crystals from Pakistan. Only
one in the thumbnail photo. Click on photo to see both pyrites. |
| Item Number: pyrpak04 |
Price: $ 19.00 |
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Spodumene Crystal in Matrix
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Clear spudomene, a lithium mineral,
is a two inch striated crystal accompanied my moonstone and numerous
micro crystals. The spudomene fluoresce red to lilac. The lithium
pegmatite mineral specimen from Pakistan is 2 1/2 inch by 2 1/2 inch
by 2 inch. |
| Item Number: spodpk01 |
Price: $ 40.00 |
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Quartz with Black Tourmaline, Pakistan
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A 2 1/4 inch quartz crystal is clear
with reflective inclusions and needle crystals of black tourmaline.
There is a 3//4 inch mass of black tourmaline crystals on one end
with many needle crystals covering the surface of the 2 1/2 inch by
1 1/4 inch by 1 1/2 inch mineral specimen from Pakistan. |
| Item Number: qttrpk05 |
Price: $ 28.00 |
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Green Tourmaline crystal in Quartz
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A stubby 1/2 inch clear green tourmaline
crystal is wedged into the side of a 1 5/8 inch translucent milky
quartz crystal. |
| Item Number: qttrpk07 |
Price: $ 20.00 |
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Quartz Crystal with Tourmaline and Axinite
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The Gilgit, Pakistan mineral specimen
is a quartz crystal on albite feldspar. Parallel quartz crystals capped
with a secondary termination are attached to the main quartz crystal.
The quartz is pierced by four elbaite tourmalines. Three of the tourmalines
are clear green, one is dark green. Axinite crystals coat the specimen
and are included in the quartz. 2 ¼ inch by 1 5/8 inch by 7/8
inch. |
| Item Number: qttrax01 |
Price: $ 55.00 |
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Faden Quartz Crystal
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Clear flat faden quartz crystal has
multiple terminations. The 1 7/8 inch by 1 3/4 inch by 3/4 inch thick
faden quartz crystal weighs 63 grams. Faden quartz is fractured from
ground movement and then healed. |
| Item Number: qfaden01 |
Price: $ 50.00 |
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Faden Quartz Cluster
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The cluster of flat quartz crystals
are set in jagged row with a 3/4 inch crystal perched on top. That
crystal has a destinct healed fracture. The faden quartz cluster from
Pakistan is 1 3/4 by 1 1/4 by 1 inch. |
| Item Number: qfaden12 |
Price: $ 18.00 |
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Twinned Skeletal Quartz Double Terminated
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Double terminated skeletal quartz crystals
are clear and slight smoky. The crystals are joined at the tips or
the tip is piercing the side of the neighboring crystal and form a
square. Mineral included panes form a series of fins. These unusual
qualities produce on exceptional quartz display. 2 1/2 inch by 2 1/8
inch by 1 inch. |
| Item Number: qtskpk01 |
Price: $ 100.00 |
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Quartz Crystal Cluster
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Slender quartz crystals are clear with
an exceptional luster. The aesthetic spray of Pakistan quartz crystals
is 2 1/2 inch by 1 1/4 inch by 1 1/4 inch. |
| Item Number: pakqtz05 |
Price: $ 17.00 |
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Quartz Crystals with Chalcopyrite
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A 2 inch quartz crystal is lying in
a bed of mineral encrusted, small slender quartz crystals. Chalcopyrite
is present in small metallic crystals as well has a coating on the
quartz. The top half is clear with vertical blade inclusions that,
when added to the mineral coating, produces glittering flashes of
light. |
| Item Number: qtzpak06 |
Price: $ 24.00 |
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Afghan Ruby Crystals
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The Afghanistan mineral specimen is
a 1 1/2 inch by 2 inch by 1 inch thick marble matrix that hold several
deep pink rubies the largest being a 1/2 inch twin. |
| Item Number: rubyaf01 |
Price: $ 83.00 |
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Afghan Ruby Crystals
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The Afghan ruby in matrix is a 1 3/4
inch by 1 3/8 inch by 3/4 inch thick marble matrix that holds a group
of rubies 3/4 inch by 3/8 inch with 1/4 inch thickness exposed. The
rubies are a deep shade of pink and translucent. |
| Item Number: rubyaf02 |
Price: $ 100.00 |
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Large Jagdalek Afghan Ruby
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1 inch by 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch ruby
and several accompanying rubies have blue areas at the tips. Afghan
rubies in matrix is 1 1/2 inch by1 1/8 inch by 5/8 inch |
| Item Number: rubyaf03 |
Price: $ 150.00 |
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Purple-Red Rubies
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The 1 inch by 3/8 inch group of reddish
purple rubies from Jagdalek, Afghanistan are in a hornfelde matrix
formed in impure marble adjacent to an igneous contact zone. |
| Item Number: rubyaf04 |
Price: $ 120.00 |
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Ruby Spinel, Pakistan
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3/8 inch ruby spinel crystal in calcite
from Hunza Valley Pakistan. The dark red crystal is an octahedron
with a one flat side. |
| Item Number: spinpk05 |
Price: $ 35.00 |
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Blue Sapphire
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1 inch by 1 inch by 1/2 inch specimen
is a hefty lump of blue sapphire crystals that have numerous triangular
faces. The precious blue sapphires are from Northern Pakistan. |
| Item Number: sappak11 |
Price: $ 126.00 |
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Ruby Spinel Crystals
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Translucent red spinel crystals up to
13/16 inch are embedded in white marble. The Pakistan mineral specimen
is 2 1/4 inch by 2 inch by 1 5/8 inch. |
| Item Number: spinpk07 |
Price: $ 126.00 |
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Spodumene Crystal
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2 5/8 inch by 3/4 inc by 1/2 inch spodumene
is a grouping of tubular terminated crystals with some clay mineral
trapped between the tubes. Spodumene is lithium aluminum silicate
and fluoresces red. Kunzite the pink version of spodumene. |
| Item Number: spodpk02 |
Price: $ 18.00 |
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Titianite or Sphene Mineral Specimen
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2 1/2 inch by 1 1/2 inch by 1 inch piece
of light igneous rock, peppered with metallic crystals has a fold
holding several titianite crystals. yellow-green titianite crystals
(a titanium mineral) up to 1/2 inch are in an elongated diamond shape
with beveled edges. Location Gilgit, Northern Pakistan. |
| Item Number: sphnpk01 |
Price: $ 25.00 |
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Blue Tourmaline
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The solid mass of dark blue tourmaline
or indiolite is surrounded with clear blue tourmaline crystals. 1
1/2 inch by 1 1/8 inch by 1 inch. groupings of slim 1/4 inch quartz
prisms are on the top surface. The interior has potential for gemstone. |
| Item Number: qttrbl01 |
Price: $ 400.00 |
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Green Tourmaline Crystal
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1 inch by 3/4 inch by 1/2 inch green
tourmaline is two crystals married together. The striations have a
shimmer that suggests this would be cats eye tourmaline. |
| Item Number: trgrpk03 |
Price: $ 19.00 |
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Bundled Green Tourmaline Crystals
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3 3/8 inch by 1 7/8 inch by 1 5/8 inch
mineral specimen is blocky feldspar crystals and clear quartz prisms
that hold a 9/16 inch wide sheave of opaque green tourmaline crystals. |
| Item Number: trmpak11 |
Price: $ 29.00 |
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Black Tourmaline Crystal Sheave
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Slender shiny black tourmalines are
complete, undamaged crystals. The 4 inch by 1 1/2 inch by 1 1/2 mineral
specimen is a sheave of crystals composed of smaller bundles. Stacks
of flat cleavelandite with pointed terminations and poker chip shapes
are lying on their sides as stepped formations. |
| Item Number: trblpk02 |
Price: $ 180.00 |
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Black Tourmaline Crystal
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Thick black tourmaline crystal is surrounded
by globes made of flat wafers of albite feldspar and clear quartz
flat and prism crystals. The schorl crystal has a lateral crack that
is on the surface and doesn’t compromise the strength of the
crystal. but we did lower the price of the mineral specimen by 30
percent. |
| Item Number: trblpk04 |
Price: $ 18.00 |
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Quartz XL pierced with Tourmaline
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Quartz XL pierced with Tourmaline. 1
1/2 inch clear quartz crystal is pierced with a slender tourmaline
crystal is either very dark green or black and is composed of slender
tubular crystals that are individually terminated and appear as striations.
At the base of the quartz is a quartz crystal attached at 45 degrees.
The quartz crystals are clear with faces with mirror flashed and horizontal
quilted striateions. Albite feldspar crystals form the base of this
aesthetic Pakistan mineral specimen. |
| Item Number: qtztrm10 |
Price: $ 36.00 |
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Dravite Tourmaline, Pakistan
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68 gram, 1 1/2 inch by 1 1/2 inch by
1 inch inch, dravite mineral specimen is from Northern Pakistan. The
striated crystals are nonterminated, semi translucent, and lustrous
green-gold color. Two main dravites are parallel with several crossing
the front face. A drusy crust covers the back of the dravite crystal
group. |
| Item Number: trdrpk01 |
Price: $ 75.00 |
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Green Tourmaline and Quartz
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Slender green tourmalines up to 3/4
are accompanied by quartz crystals in a chalky matrix. The Pakistan
mineral specimen is 1 7/8 inch 1 1/2 inch by 1 inch. |
| Item Number: trgrpk01 |
Price: $ 40.00 |
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Rainbow Topaz Crystal
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Occasionally a specimen is of more value
in the matrix than as a gemstone. This brilliant rainbow topaz, set
in crystalline quartz, will provide viewing pleasure and has intrinsic
value. The 1 1/2 inch by 1 1/2 inch by 1 inch specimen holds a 5/8
inch long clear topaz crystal. |
| Item Number: toppak03 |
Price: $ 32.00 |
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Topaz from Pakistan
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58 gram topaz is several crystals with
albite feldspar in between. Flashing striated faces and gemmy areas
highlight the clear topaz mineral specimen from Pakistan. 2 inch by
1 3/8 inch by 1 1/4 inch.Alternating images. |
| Item Number: toppak05 |
Price: $ 65.00 |
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Topaz Crystal
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Clear topaz is a four sided pyramid
with corroded faces that is the top half of an octahedron detached
from the country rock. In some light the topaz has a pink tint. Topaz
reflects light with a diffused glow creating a nice display specimen.
The topaz crystal from Pakistan is 1 ¼ inch and weighs 24 grams. |
| Item Number: toppak06 |
Price: $ 48.00 |
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Red Amandine Garnets
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Quartz matrix holds three large red
almandine garnets accompanied by small orange spesserite garnets.
The largest red garnet is 1/2 inch across a face. The Gilgit, Pakistan
mineral specimen is 2 inch by 1 inch by 1 inch. |
| Item Number: garpak14 |
Price: $ 28.00 |
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Spesserite Garnets on Albite xls
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Albite crystal matrix is sprinkled with
1/8 inch and smaller, bright red spesserite garnets and small black
hexagonal prisms. The albite crystals are interlocked with many twinned
crystals. Location: Gilgit, Pakistan. |
| Item Number: garpak17 |
Price: $ 22.00 |
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