Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:22 pm Posts: 21602 Location: San Francisco
Classic pegmatitic association of an aquamarine crystal peeking out of a matrix of feldspar, quartz, biotite and an unidentified metallic mineral.
Specimen courtesy of Jason Barrett Do you have a location for this xl Jason?
Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:40 pm Posts: 2667 Location: South Dakota
I can check but I think it's from Skardu District, Northern Areas..the thing about pakistani and afghan material is alot of the locations are not actual mines....the aquamarine for instance is found in multiple valleys along cliffs and where the rivers have cut through the rock in small to medium pegs scattered about sort of like antero pegs..there is not one single location all of them you see come from..they just use certain "area" names to tell where they are from..they would use the closest towns but some of the towns barely have names..juat like paprook.paprock afgahnaistan is not a mine but an area with multiple mines..
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