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RED Katlang Topaz

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Will Johnson
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"For every hundred thousand orange that are found, there is one purple, for every hundred thousand purple, there is one red topaz found"

Product details

Species
TopazAbout Topaz →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions5.0 cm
Added on08/05/2025
Locality
Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, KatlangRegional guide →

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Topaz
Mineral guide
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hard, glassy orthorhombic crystals from pegmatites and rhyolites; colors range from colorless to pink; sharp terminations aid identification, localitie…
Topaz
Regional guide
Topaz from Katlang, Pakistan
Katlang topaz is one of Pakistan’s great collector stones: a fluorine-poor, hydroxyl-rich topaz from carbonate-hosted veins, famous above all for natural pink to violet-pink crystals whose color is caused by chromium rather than by the post-mining treatments responsible for much of the pink topaz seen from other sources. The classic locality is Ghundao Hill, just north of Katlang in Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where a small, conspicuous limestone hill rises out of a cultivated plain and carries calcite-quartz-mica-talc vein systems that have yielded some of the most distinctive natural pink topaz specimens in the world.