English: Locality: Dassu (Dasso; Dusso), Braldu Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan

Dimensions: 8.3 cm x 8.2 cm x 4.2 cm

8.3 x 8.2 x 4.2 cm. A great rarity from this well known pegmatite occurrence in Pakistan featuring a very good sized mesh-like group of prismatic silvery viitaniemiite crystals sitting atop golden, semi-metallic, hexagonal bladed crystals of muscovite with minor green fluorite and white albite. This very rare sodium calcium manganese aluminum phosphate is only found in about a dozen localities in the world, and even though the largest known example of the species was found in Afghanistan (see following link: http://www.mindat.org/photo-132707.html), this is the only specimen of confirmed viitaniemiite from Pakistan that we've seen. This is not just a single crystal, or a few crystals together, but a lot of crystals on matrix. Ex. Herb Obodda specimen.