Natural Golden Topaz crystal specimen from Shigar Valley, Skardu, Pakistan
Natural Golden Topaz Crystal: Elite-tier collector's mineral.
Shigar Valley: is world-famous for producing topaz crystals with extraordinary geometric perfection, glass-like clarity, and a rich, honey-golden hue.
Details: This exceptional specimen features a perfectly terminated, vertical topaz prism with highly lustrous, vertically striated faces. Known for its intense optical clarity, the crystal acts like a natural gemstone prism, brilliantly refracting light from its interior.
Collector's Note: True golden topaz from Pakistan is completely natural and highly stable, unlike many commercial blue topazes that require artificial radiation.
Facts:
- Topaz requires highly specific chemical concentrations of fluorine to form in these
- High-clarity, deeply saturated golden crystals naturally sitting on a clean rock matrix are rare museum-grade pieces pegmatites.
Formation: The physical rock formation that hosts the golden topaz is structurally classified as Miarolitic, symmetrically zoned pegmatite dikes and veins.
Geometry:
- Dikes and Veins As tectonic forces stretched the Karakoram crust
- The surrounding ancient metamorphic basement rocks (specifically the Dassu Gneiss and Schists) cracked open
- Superheated magma injected into these narrow fissures under immense pressure, forming dikes (vertical sheets cutting across rock layers)
- Veins are narrower fractures
- These dikes can range from a few inches to several meters wide
Formation: The physical rock formation that hosts the golden topaz is structurally classified as miarolitic, symmetrically zoned pegmatite dikes and veins.
Origin: Shigar Valley, Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 0.75" x 1" x 1.5"
Weight: 27g/135ct
