RARE ALKALI BERYL - AFGHANISTAN
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Deo Darrah, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan districten, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
A rare gray-blue varietal of beryl: tabular solid alkali-rich, doubly terminated and translucent beryl crystals with a coated layer of albite and small tourmaline needles!
These were originally thought to be Rosterite or Vorobyevite, but further analysis confirmed they are alkali-rich beryls.
Deo Darrah (a Persian word meaning "Valley of Jin") is an old tourmaline mine.
4.5×3.5×3 cm