Chamachu, Baltistan, Pakistan - A single crystal of indicolite of 1.9 cm in size emerges from a surround of cleavelandite and presses up against a large book of mica. The indicolite is a deep blue colour with lighter blue colour at the end. The termination is not clean rather a stunted mottled finish. Undamaged. Overall size is 4.3x3x2 cm

Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan - On a cluster of muscovite crystals there are 3 waterclear beryls and 2 of them are biterminated. The one more evident is 1.5 cm long while the orhe is passing through the muscovites and is 2 cm long. The third is a partial crystal grown on the face of the first beryl. Nice specimen ! overall size is 3x2.5x1.8 cm

Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan - There is a cluster of several beryls here ! There are almost 2 dozens crystals from 0.5 to 1.8 cm in size. The cluster stands nicely. Nice rock of 6x3x2.5 cm

Kharan, Baluchistan, Pakistan - Nice faden quartz cluster with quartz crystals up to 2 cm in size ! There are a lot of quartz here ! What makes this rock interesting is the combination with some rutile crystals included in the quartzes and a nice terminated brookite crystal of 0.5 cm ! showy faden of 5.5x4x2 cm in size

Stak Nala, Skardu District, Pakistan - Double terminated elbaite attached to a book of cleavelandite. The crystal is undamaged and 3.2 cm long ! it shows a light yellow on one end and green on the other. There is a smaller 1.3 cm terminated elbaite on a side. Overall size is 4.7x2.5x2 cm

Kop Krom mine, Kop Daglari, Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey - A classic Kammererite specimen from Turkey. This mineral is a Chromian Clinochlore with a nice violet color. This rock hosts a lot of millimetric crystals covering the surface of the specimen ! Overall size is 7.5x5.5x4 cm. Weight is 335 gr

Zagi Mountain, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan - Nice bright orange bastnaesite crystal of 0.7 cm wide. The crystal has no damage and shows nicely on a pericline crystal of 2.3 cm long. Overall size is 2.2x1.3x1 cm

Pune, Maharashtra, India - Apophyllite is a classic zeolite mineral produced in the world famous basalt quarries of Maharashtra, India. This specimen is a large plate completely covered by colorless waterclear apophyllite crystals. There are hundreds of crystals up to the size of 2 cm ! some of them are nicely located so that to biterminated. A showy classic rock from India of 14x7x4 cm.Weight is 570 gr.

Khogyani, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan - A nice specimen with several large andradite crystals up to 1 cm wide with diopside and chlinochlore. Overall size is 4.5x4x4 cm. Weight is 102 gr.

Jalgoan Quarries, Maharashtra, India - Large fairly well-isolated crystals of blue-grey apophyllite are stacked up on a matrix of basalt amygdale covered with smaller crystals of apophyllite with a ligth pinkish color. Apophyllites are up to 2.3 cm in size.Overall size is 7 × 4 × 5 cm. Weight is 140 gr