Fluorite - Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Pakistan - 10 x 7 x 5.5 cm / main crystal: 3.5 cm

Mineral: Fluorite
Locality: Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 5.5 cm / main crystal: 3.5 cm

Description: Mass: 194 g MIM number:1770 Perfect transparent pink crystal shaped as an octahedron with very bright faces consisting of triangular figures reminiscent of diamond octahedra. It looks poised ever so precariously on the edge on a matrix made of muscovite blades and small crystals of white albite. Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence