Country origin record
Afghanistan
Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.
Evidence-backed overview
A country in the gemstone graph
Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.
Bidirectional relationships
Documented gemstones
Occurrence and production are separate claims. A production label is date-bounded and does not guarantee quality, origin determination, or market value.
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Aquamarine
Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.
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Within this country
Published places
Afghanistan Aquamarine Pegmatites
Afghan pegmatites are documented sources of Beryl including Aquamarine.
AquamarineOpen recordBadakhshan Spinel Region
Historic spinel-producing region extending across modern borders.
SpinelOpen recordPanjshir Emerald Region
An important hydrothermal Emerald region with inclusion overlap requiring careful analysis.
EmeraldOpen recordEvidence ledger
Sources & verification
Sources are deduplicated across the geographic record. Current-production claims receive explicit review dates; a map point never substitutes for geological or production evidence.
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Gems & Gemology · 2019
View authoritative source - [2]Sudarat Saeseaw, Nathan D. Renfro, Aaron C. Palke, Ziyin Sun, and Shane F. McClure. Geographic Origin Determination of Emerald.
Gems & Gemology · 2019
View authoritative source - [3]Nathan D. Renfro, Tyler Smith, John I. Koivula, Shane F. McClure, Kevin Schumacher, and James E. Shigley. Micro-Features of Beryl.
Gems & Gemology · 2023
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