Mineral: Sekaninaite with Quartz and Albite (variety cleavelandite)
Locality: Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 14 cm / main crystal: 8.4 cm

Description: Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Mass: 1800 g MIM number: 1565 Probable year of extraction : 1995 Fat greenish crystal showing some orthorhombic faces protruding from a matrix of massive quartz with smaller and incompletely formed crystals at the base and iron oxide stained cleavelandite blades Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence; AINU / Augustin de Valence; Publication: "Mineralogical Record: Sep-Oct 2015"

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