Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:22 pm Posts: 21602 Location: San Francisco
A client of mine recently purchased a collection of large, faceted, pink apatite. What do you know about this material? Treatment? Origin? Availability?
Stones I see available are under 2ct. These are about 16cts total:
A lot comes out of afghanistan. It is quite available though usually not in facet quality. Irradiation can apparently improve the color and sunlight can fade it.
Joined: Fri Nov 01, 2013 9:16 am Posts: 239 Location: Germany
yes we have some in Stock from afghanistan. They seem stable, as we have them a few years now. We have also some specimen, which have faded a little bit. But as Stephen said, very clean material is rare to get....
This pink apatite specimen is from Pakistan usually from Baltistan, someone selling on ebay, it may help you understand price difference and any sort of treatments if may occurred.
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