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Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan

The Shigar River is a tributary to the Indus River, joining at the town of Skardu. The Basha and Braldu rivers are northern tributaries of the Shigar. Numerous complex granitic pegmatites and a few alpine-cleft metamorphic deposits are found in the Shigar Valley and its tributaries. Shigar Valley contains the Main Karokoram Thrust separating the metasediments (chlorite to amphibolite grade) on the Asian plate from the southern volcanoclastic rocks of the Kohistan-Ladakh island arc.

Mineral List

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Actinolite
Albite
var: Cleavelandite
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Allanite-(Ce)
Almandine
Amphibole Supergroup
var: Byssolite
Andradite ?
'Apatite'
Aragonite
Autunite
Axinite-(Fe)
Baryte
Beryl
var: Aquamarine
var: Goshenite
var: Morganite
'Biotite'
Calcite
Cassiterite
'Clay'
Clinochlore
Clinozoisite
'Columbite'
Columbite-(Fe)
Diopside
Dolomite
Elbaite
Epidote
Ferrowodginite
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Fluornatromicrolite
Galena
'Garnet'
Gypsum
Hematite
Herderite ?
'Herderite-Hydroxylherderite Series'
Hydroxylherderite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Lepidolite
'Mica Group'
Microcline
Microlite Group
Muscovite
Orthoclase
Phenakite
Pollucite
Prehnite
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Rose Quartz
Rutile
'Sagenite'
'Scapolite Group'
Scheelite
Schorl
Siderite
Spessartine
Stellerite
Tantalite-(Mn)
Titanite
Topaz
'Tourmaline'
Tremolite
Triplite
Väyrynenite
Vesuvianite
Viitaniemiite
Zircon
Zoisite


88 entries listed. 55 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region

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References

- Blauwet, D., Smith, B., and Smith, C. (1997): A Guide to the Mineral Localities of the Northern Areas, Pakistan. Mineralogical Record 28(3), 183-200.
-Ikram Mineralogy information
-Hassam, Muhammad (2007) Mineralogy and Geochemistry of gemstones and the gemstone-bearing pegmatites in the Shigar Valley of Skardu, Northern Areas of Pakistan. PhD thesis, Peshawar University

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