This is a Hashupi quartz crystal of the highest quality.

For sure this is a top quality crystal, with optical clarity, some unique steps on the termination faces and longer faces, some green chlorite inclusion and exclusion on the bottom and on the top also but deposited on the outside, on the termination. With time the quartz would envelop the chlorite turning it into a phantom.

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.

Optical crystals are crystals that are water clear, we can easily see through them and are also crystals that have reached a very high state of evolution.

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