 | | Report (issue) | | To Our Readers: Pakistan is a mineralogically-rich and interesting country. The quantity of Pakistani...us by surprise when people began to ask, "Why Pakistan; why now?" It has never been our intention to...the mineral deposits of the high mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Once into the project, however...justice to neither. We decided to limit our focus to Pakistan, though even focused on a single country, a comprehensive...aquamarine); 19.6 cm high Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan P hoto by Jeff Scovil |  | | Report (issue) | | (weighing a total of 2.52 carats) from Katlang, Pakistan, adorn the upper wings, with a matched pair of...ZBYNEK BURIVAL 46. On the Topaz Trail in Gilgit-Baltistan DUDLEY BLAUWET 58. Zimbabwe Blue Topaz: St...the term "topaz" in reference to the olivines, quartz, and other Topaz crystals can be extraordinarily...Moreover, gold-color quartz ("citrine") is often labeled "topaz quartz" and brown, smoky quartz is sold as "smoky...schorl, and albite, 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen collection, Scovil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of muscovite with quartz, 6.8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County...across, and are associated with beryl, albite, and quartz. Plumose muscovite has been found at the Smith...minerals include beryl, albite, fluorapatite, and quartz. In nearby New Hampshire, the Chandler quarry,...minerals include albite, fluorapatite, beryl, and quartz, to name but a few. Also in Grafton County is the...rosettes, associated with fluorapatite, albite, and quartz have come from here. The Strickland quarry, Portland |  | | Report (issue) | | Spessartine from Tongbei BY BERTOLD OTTENS 70 Pakistan and Afghanistan: Garnet from the Roof of the World...Discussed on Paies Mg3Alz(SiO4)3 Fe! +Alz(SiO4)3 Mnj +Ali(SiO4)3 7 to 7½ 7 to 7½ 7 to 7½ 3.58 4.32 4.19 ...uranium-vanadium deposit of the Sandy Mine in the Laguna District, New Mexico, is the type locality for goldmanite...of the Kao Kimberlite Pipe in the Butha-Buthe district of the landlocked African Kingdom of Lesotho....lazurite ("lapis lazuli"), and various varieties of quartz were generally used for seals in Mesopotamia. Important |  | | Journal (issue) | | Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...Famous mineral localities: Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Record, volume 37, November–December, 2006 511 QUARTZ, 5.5 cm, Dalnegorsk, Russia. Jeff Scovil photo... Famous Mineral Localities Alchuri Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals...near the small village of Alchuri in the Shigar Valley, Pakistan, have produced attractive specimens of |  | | Report (issue) | | cm tall Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza-Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Brent Lockhart collection, Jeff Scovil...PAGE 86 Apatite Valleys: Localities of Northern Pakistan BY DUDLEY BLAUWET PAGE 96 Apatite from Nuristan...apatite structure is complex and contains three district sites on which the cations sit. The calcium and...aesthetic crystalsoften found on a microcline or quartz matrix. Samples are found in cavities in the Sapo...5.6 cm tall Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan John Rakovan collection |  | | Journal (issue) | | separate the tiny tourmaline crystals from the quartz, feldspar and mica, bringing the B2 O3 content...tourmaline (boron ore) of the Sangnong mine, Tancbon-gun, Hamyong-namdo. Miscellaneous Reports of the Geological...succeeded in showing that unknown crystal inclusions in quartz had double-refractive qualities that he determined...driver to let him know that I wanted to leave for Shigar the following morning and that I did not have time...and to travel all of the way to Nyet in the Shigar Valley. I then walked to another shop and talked to |  | | Journal (issue) | | were combined under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey 168 PRODUCTION AND MARKETS...militant Taliban were forcing residents of the Swat Valley, which had been closed for nearly a decade, to...finance terrorist activities (“Emeralds from Swat Valley. . . ,” 2009). The decade also saw the rise in...to the traditional spinel sources of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Myanmar (spinel, if polished elsewhere, is...start operations at the Kagem mine in the Kafubu District, historically Zambia’s largest source of emeralds |  | | Report (issue) | | Union & DMITRI BELAKOVSKJ China BY GUANGHUA LIU Pakistan BY DUDLEY BLAUWET Fluorite from Japan BY YOSHIRO... Iridescent Fluorite from Ohio's Findlay Arch District BY JASON MCDONALD 69 Canada BY MARK MAUTHNER...Crystals are frequently found in association with quartz, calcite, galena, sphalerite, and barite to form...Upper right: I -cm wide fluorite dodecahedra with quartz; Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado The Collector...Spinet-law contact twin; II cm wide; Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan Dudley Blauwet specimen; Kevin Dixon photo Lower |  | | Book | | Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...major associations of Swiss hematite iron roses are quartz, ortboclase, albite, rutile, and zeolites (especially |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...2008 associated with quartz, including distinctive and beautiful Japanlaw quartz twins. Other crystals...pseudomorphs after pyrite. The exceptional epidote and quartz specimens produced over the past 100 years have...specimens from the Red Cloud mine in the Silver District of La Paz County, Arizona are widely regarded...Mineralogical Record, volume 39, May–June, 2008 Quartz and Associated Minerals from Hot Springs, Arkansas |  | | Report (issue) | | as seen in the pink and blue crystal above from Pakistan, is not uncommon. This specimen is in the collection...blue beryl on feldspar from the Northern Areas, Pakistan (upper left; collection Dudley Blauwet; photo...near Sabsar, on the Gilgit to Skardu Road, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Collection Ty Lawrence;...phosphate type pegmatites, beryl is associated with quartz, microcline, albite, muscovite, biotite, ferrocolumbite...Alpine and hydrothermal veins, it is found with quartz and feldspar. In topaz rhyolites where red beryl |  | | Journal (issue) | | Inscriptions inside emerald crystals • Color-coated star quartz • Variscite, resembling turquoise 62 Gem News...Transparent faceted sillimanite from India • Sphene from Pakistan • New spinel from Mahenge, Tanzania • Cuneiform...in copal • Colored fluid inclusions in quartz • “Platinum quartz” with star • New Madagascar mining laws...• Väyrynenite from Pakistan • A convincing moonstone doublet • A rutilated quartz doublet • An unusual...field trips to the world-famous Pala gem pegmatite district in San Diego County. These excursions will give |
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Apo Ali Gun, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan