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Lazulite — specimen 0066, photo © NMNHS
Lazulite — specimen 0066, photo © NMNHS

Lazulitespecimen 0066

Origin

South Asia
Pakistan
Lazulite — specimen 0066, locality map
Data

Weight: 0.08 ct; size: 2.78 | 2.75 | 1.75 mm; shape: round; colour: medium dark very strongly bluish green; very slightly greyish; clarity: eye clean; cut: very good; treatment: none.
Notes

Very clean specimen; very good brilliant style cut. Source: John Bradshaw, Coast to Coast Rare Stones International.

More information from ‘Classification’


Disseminated in metamorphic quartzites, schists and quartz veins; in the border zones of complex granite pegmatites (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). Faceted specimens are very rare.