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What a gorgeous, multiple color-zoned zircon from Pakistan! This textbook geometry is seldom seen in this size and quality. This beauty of a crystal is super lustrous (waxy in luster) and transparent around its periphery, becoming more translucent towards its center. The zircon is a pale pink-red to whitish at the pyramidal termination quickly transitioning to a rich, merlot red for the remainder of the crystal. The edges are sharp and faces broad with the crystal sitting nicely in the granular biotite-calcite matrix. The zircon at this locality are found frozen in the matrix and are generally removed intact like this one. This sharp, tetragonal crystal is in excellent condition with only minor contacting where it was separated from the matrix on the underside of the piece and then the termination is just ever so slightly rough and that may be from natural growth. It fluoresces bright orange in short-wave UV. We have seen quite a few of these, however, this piece definitely ranks up there in the top group for its size class! Complete all around. Old material, likely early 2000s, from the Paul Stahl collection.
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Species
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions6.4 x 4.8 x 3.1 cm
Locality
Astore Valley, Astore Dist., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
SKURARE25-159
Listed on03/20/2026
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