Rare Fluorescent Lavender Spinel Cluster (Thumbnail) - Badakhshan, Afghanistan For Sale

An authentic, highly visual thumbnail specimen of UV-fluorescent purple Spinel from the famed Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan.Pink-to-red spinel has been mined from the Badakhshan region of eastern Afghanistan since ancient times. Starting in early 2017, attractive, and significantly rarer, purple spinels from Badakhshan started hitting markets, making pieces like these both new and scarce.This specimen features an aesthetic stacked habit—a dominant, primary octahedral crystal sitting atop a subordinate interlocking spinel crystal. In daylight, the crystals display a delicate pastel lilac-to-lavender purple shade with glistening surface facets. When illuminated with longwave or shortwave ultraviolet light, the specimen lights up with a fiery crimson-pink fluorescence.An excellent piece for fluorescent mineral suites, geometric crystal habit collectors, or Afghan locality specialists. You will receive the exact specimen pictured.Weight = 3.6g