Aquamarine with Pink Apatite from Pakistan - image 1

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Aquamarine with Pink Apatite from Pakistan

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Unknown Owner

Bel ensemble aigue-marine apatite sur gangue de muscovite

Product details

Species

Aquamarine, ApatiteAbout Aquamarine →

SizeCabinet

Dimensions11.0 x 7.0 x 6.0 cm

Weight449 grams

Added on05/24/2026

Locality

Pakistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Chumar BakhoorRegional guide →

Known provenance

Date	Collector	Acquisition price
—	Fine Art Minerals	Not disclosed

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Aquamarine

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sea-blue to blue-green beryl; forms in pegmatites and alpine veins; prized for color, clarity, and dramatic matrix specimens.

Aquamarine

Aquamarine from Chumar Bakhoor, Nagar District, Pakistan

Chumar Bakhoor aquamarine is one of the defining specimen styles of the Pakistani Himalaya: pale to medium ice-blue beryl standing upright from glittering beds of bladed muscovite, sometimes accompanied by pink fluorapatite, pink to green fluorite, albite, microcline, quartz, topaz, schorl, and adularia. The locality is not famous simply because it produces aquamarine; it is famous because so much of its best aquamarine occurs as complete, displayable matrix specimens rather than as isolated gem rough. The classic Chumar Bakhoor “look” is a sharp hexagonal prism, glassy and transparent to translucent, set against a mica-rich pegmatite matrix that gives the blue color a cool metallic contrast.