Description
Wonderful, tabular, distinctly purple apatite crystals from the Pakistani deposits in the Braldu Valley in the Shigar District of Gilgit-Baltistan. The well-defined crystals have an excellent glassy luster with excellent striation on the stubby prism faces, and a wonderful translucency. A very colorful and contrasting piece, purple Apatite on the creamy white matrix of Albite and Muscovite.