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Goshenite

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Goshenite

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 0.9 × 0.7 cm
Description

Superb colourless specimen of beryl, variety goshenite, of net development of the hexagonal prism, terminated by the hexagonal dipyramid with nice growing steps. The crystal is so transparent that is very hard to photograph. It is a floater piece with a re-entrant contact point with the matrix near the base, but completely crystallized all around. Free of damages.

Found in 1998.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Goshenite

Variety Of: 

Beryl

Formula: 
Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Strunz: 
9.CJ.05
Hardness: 
7.5 - 8.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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