KP18 Corundum var. Sapphire
Azrat Syed, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
8.8x 5.5x 5.7 cm
$1200

A large sapphire crystal with nice blue zones, on a muscovite matrix.  Apart from the Jagdalek rubies, I have not seen much in the way of corundum from Afghanistan, and certainly no sapphire specimens.

There are no images of anything other than Afghan rubies pictured on Mindat, so I take it as a sign (combined with my not having seen anything at shows) that this is something reasonably new...

This was about 4 times its current size when I purchased it.... but I spent some time on it and got it down to a nicer size.

This was the best piece from the lot, with the largest crystal.








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