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Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan

Latitude: 35°42'N
Longitude: 75°4'E
Miarolitic granite pegmatites in the Stak valley in the northeast part of the Nanga Parbat – Haramosh Massif, in northern Pakistan, locally contain economic quantities of bi- and tricolored tourmaline.

Map Reference added is for Village of Stak, in Stak Valley

Mineral List

Albite
var: Cleavelandite
var: Oligoclase
Almandine
'Almandine-Spessartine Series'
Aragonite
Bertrandite
Beryl
var: Aquamarine
var: Morganite
Billwiseite (TL)
'Biotite'
Cassiterite
'Columbite'
Columbite-(Mn)
Elbaite
Eosphorite
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Hambergite
Hydroxylherderite
Ilmenite
Lepidolite
Löllingite
Magnetite
Microcline
Microlite Group
'Monazite'
Montmorillonite
Muscovite
Opal
var: Opal-AN

'Perthite'
Pollucite
Pyrite
Pyrochlore Group
Quartz
Schorl
Spessartine
Stibiocolumbite
Stibiotantalite
Tantalite-(Mn)
Topaz
'Tourmaline'
'var: Indicolite'
Zircon


45 entries listed. 33 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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References

Laurs, B. M., Dilles, John H., Wairrach, Y., Kausar, A. B. & Snee, L. W. (1998): Geological setting and petrogenesis of symmetrically zoned, miarolitic granitic pegmatites at Stak Nala, Nanga Parbat-Haramosh Massif, northern Pakistan. Canadian Mineralogist 36, 1-47.


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