This is a Hashupi quartz crystal of great quality.

It has great clarity, with many small Hematite crrystals. The termination is damaged, although it was made by natural causes because it can already be seen a regrowth pattern there, which takes probably thousands of years for that to happen.

Hashupi quartz crystals of high quality are a very rare type of Himalayan crystals, the higher the quality the higher the difficulty to get them, not only because of climate conditions and high altitudes, that makes miners only extract them for a few months a year but also because crystals of such high quality  have been very hard to find in the mines.

This crystal comes from Hashupi mine, in Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.