PINK FLUORITE from an EXCEPTIONAL NEW FIND AT CHUMAR BAKHOOR, PAKISTAN

From: Mineralogical Record | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: Appiani, Roberto | Copyright information

At the 2006 Munich Show, Italian dealer Riccardo Prato exhibited in his Pregi Gemme stand five extraordinary fluorite specimens from Pakistan collected in September 2006. Fluorite from Pakistan is not new, and pink octahedral crystals, sometimes associated with aquamarine and fluorapatite on muscovite, have been known for several years. However, the specimens from this find are far superior to those from previous discoveries, ranking them among the finest known examples of the species.

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