Panjshir or Panjsher valley emerald gemstones are one of the rarest and finest qualities of emerald gemstones. Usually found as small-size pensils like octagonal rough crystals, they are mined from the western mountains in the Afghanistan region. They have one of the most beautiful colors, green.
These stones are more popular for their mesmerizing bright color, which is lively green with a perfect combination of green with a yellow and blue tint, giving them a vivid neon shade or golden green; adding to it is the ultimate glow or luster in the stones, which made them much sought-after emeralds.
Once the crystals from this Afgan region were considered a waste or low-quality emerald rough by miners because of the high saturation of inclusions, but now as new cutting techniques evolved, very small faceted stones can be made with modern machines. Now the melee size cut from this rough is the most expensive melee emeralds (stars of diamond and step cut) of all. The bigger-sized emeralds in good quality from Makni mines in the Panjshir region are very rare gemstones.
Recognized as the most magnificent shade with ultimate crystalline transparency, these emeralds appear similar to Swat emeralds, and they are rivals to the best emeralds found in any other emerald mines of the world, like Muzo and Chivor mines of Colombia or the best Zambian emeralds.
The rare finished emeralds from the Panjshir region in top clarity, color, and luster in larger sizes can cost over $4000/ct easily.
Panjshir stones have unique bright transparency in neon green color but come with a lot of inclusions, surface opening cracks, and are filled with fissures, so those with vivid even color and clarity in bigger sizes are extremely expensive and rare auction-type gems.
The rough found here is more saturated with inclusions, and due to the lack of proper mining techniques done with abrupt explosions now (in older times all extraction was done with hammer and nail), the stone develops cracks like cobwebs. The rough, even naturally, is filled with fissures (hollow cack space or veins of stone), so they appear more grilled than other origin emeralds. Cracks and minor pits are overfilled in these emeralds; also, black carbon inclusions and red-white sand are occasionally found. Panjshir emerald stone is found from transparent to opaque transparency, full of cracks and inclusions, so clear and transparent big size Panjshir emerald crystals with good color are very rare and fetch high prices because they are not found as commonly as Colombian emeralds.
The rough has been mined here (in the now Afghan region) for over a thousand years, and mines in the valley are the oldest source of these fine gem stones on earth. The valley is located more than 100 km north east of Kabul city, and there are more than 170 mines that have given emerald produce from infinite years; the famous ones are the Khenj mines of Milzeni, Mikeni (makni), Butak, Barun, and Darlzhenj region deposits.
The difference in the geography of mining areas differs emeralds in characteristics from one another, and only a few experienced people can distinguish these emeralds on the level of mines.
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