 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | October 2017 Gem pegmatites of northeastern Afghanistan pg 610-675. Main article in Special Issue of...SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2017 Gem pegmatites of Northeastern Afghanistan By Peter Lyckberg Contents Introduction...............614 Nuristan Province........................................616 Mawi Pegmatite...............................619 Nilaw and Korgal Pegmatites.............. 630 Kulam Pegmatite...................................................... 633 Parun Pegmatite Field ......................... 656 Kunar Province |  | | Journal (issue) | | quartz and cleavelandite, 14.5 cm, from Paprok, Nuristan, Pakistan. Collector’s Edge Minerals specimen;...SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2017 Gem pegmatites of Northeastern Afghanistan By Peter Lyckberg Contents Introduction ............614 Nuristan Province ...........................................616 Mawi Pegmatite ............................619 Nilaw and Korgal Pegmatites ...............630 Kulam Pegmatite .....................................................633 Parun Pegmatite Field ............................656 Kunar Province |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University Oxford, Ohio 45056 rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts...apatites from this pegmatite mine have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite in the United States...many others, another of North America’s finest fluorapatite specimens. It is from a locality, however, that...County, Massachusetts. Rather than a granite pegmatite, the geological environment in which this specimen...Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Figure 1. Fluorapatite on albite with chlorite, 11.5 cm tall, Acushnet |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Colorado 80210 markivanjacobson@gmail.com No pegmatite mineral collection is complete without octahe-...Fluorite is almost always a late-stage mineral in pegmatite cavities, forming a colorful, attractive icing...training, with a long-term specialty in collecting pegmatite minerals. He currently works in Chengdu, Sichuan...13 August 2013 2 Locality Parental Granite Pegmatite Class Mineral associates of significance Crystal...minerals Simmons and Heinrich (1980) 8 Badu pegmatite, Llano County, TX, USA Intrusive into metamorphic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | albite, 15.0 × 12.5 cm, from the Mawi Pegmatite, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. Bonisoli specimen 5229, Jeff...from the Pech district, Konar Province, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Bonisoli specimen 3630, Jeff Scovil photo...albite, 10.0 × 8.5 cm, from Paprok mine, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Bonisoli specimen 8113, Jeff Scovil photo...travels provided Bonisoli with opportunities for field collecting and visiting museums and private collections...variety aquamarine, doubly terminated crystal with fluorapatite, quartz, and albite, 8.0 × 5.5 cm, from Shigar |  | | Journal (issue) | | Congo Republic. (7) Sodalite, Kokcha Valley, Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite...in Afghanistan, shown at the 2006 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show (with pictures of him “in the field”)....Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 36. “Royal purple” fluorapatite, 2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Mount Apatite...Record, November–December, 2022 33 Figure 40. Fluorapatite, 9 mm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Androscoggin...You paid good money for your specimens (or the field-equivalent in blood, sweat and tears), so you might |  | | Journal (issue) | | James Elliott photo. Bottom row, from left: Fluorapatite, 2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin...deposits, and consequently with such severely limited field collecting opportunities, should foster a hot-bed...locations and contemporary deposits developed by field collectors. Size is not the main focus, as quality...Roberts, and subsequently discovered several new pegmatite minerals in the Black Hills of South Dakota; Bill...Almandine-spessartine on albite, 4.9 mm, Poaia pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Beth Van Allen photo. |  | | Catalog/List | | could be a result of careless mass packaging in the field, or just the stream abrasion that certainly affected...structure. When the Iron that is normally present in pegmatite pockets is deficient, and there is plenty of Manganese...Elbaite. Compared to the output of place such as Afghanistan or Brazil, the production from Elba is relatively... 73043 ELBAITE with FELDSPAR & QUARTZ Rosina Pegmatite, San Piero in Campo, Campo nell’Elba, Elba Island...out from the Rodina, concerning the Malkhan Pegmatite Field: an area of some 60 square kilometers, southeast |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineralogical Record to recognize individuals for field collecting achievements contributing to the heritage...school field trips for his wife’s third grade classes, Bob started “Geology Adventures,” a field-trip business...lived. Lanny and I had been working on publishing a field guide to all of the Cascade volcanoes. One of us...ruby-red spinel. This fame is widespread in the field of gemology, but mineral collectors may be less...chrysoberyl, tourmaline, danburite, forsterite, fluorapatite, topaz, quartz and zircon, plus rare species |  | | Journal (issue) | | collection. Elbaite, 7 cm, from Laghman, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Ron Zeilstra collection; Michael Bainbridge...terrain throughout much of the Pacific Northwest made field collecting more difficult than in areas to the south...community and dealers to serve them gradually evolved. Field collecting has flourished throughout the Northwest...1923, at the age of 27, and became an enthusiastic field collector along with his first wife Hilda. It was...Agate and Mineral Society (OAMS) and took part in field trips to collect more agates, thunder eggs, petrified |  | | Journal (issue) | | localities and also localities worldwide. His favorite field-collecting sites ran the gamut from British Columbia...Missouri Minerals. He would often spend summers field collecting with a local minister, Durban Thorpe...group involved in mineral collecting; they took field trips to the Mesa Grande district, the Crestmore...maintained his mineral hobby, leveraging his time in the field near excavation projects to collect mineral specimens...his home. Whether at home, at a show or in the field, Chuck was unfailingly friendly and humble, willing |  | | Journal (issue) | | across, and more. Exploitation of this remarkable pegmatite continued intermittently until 1937, when the...bed. lt proved to be topaz from a Precambrian pegmatite cutting coarse-grained reddish granites of the...(including the 15.5-carat "Star of Arkansas") on recent field trips to the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro...Sodalite (hackmanite), 16 cm, from Sar-e-Sang, Afghanistan. Below: Under longwave ultraviolet light. Joe...has continued, and I've taken the opportunity to field collect wherever and whenever I can. In the last |  | | Catalog/List | | Cts. Himalaya Mine (Himalaya dikes; Himalaya pegmatite) Gem Hill, Mesa Grande District, San Diego Co...online. 72091 Gemstone: Apatite - 32.28 Cts. Afghanistan Apatite is a fairly common Phosphate mineral...Nonetheless, this gorgeous emerald cut stone from Afghanistan is a stunner and weighs in at a substantial 32...82.02 Cts. Dara-e-Pech pegmatite field Dara-e-Pech District, Kunar Afghanistan Kunzite is the most popular...gemstone is top-caliber. The sizable example from Afghanistan weighs in at over 82 carats and features the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Arizona Arizona is without doubt one of the premier field collecting states in America. On any day a collector...issue of The Mineral Collector revealed that Utah field collector Maynard Bixby (1853-1935) was offering...(1933-1982) was also one of Arizona's most active field collectors and dealers. Since Arthur Flagg's time...hosted Minions meetings at their Tucson homes. Field trips were organized, including a memorable one...a whim, I went field collecting with a college classmate, Tony Jones. I prefer field collecting but I |  | | Journal (issue) | | Amethyst. 10 x 21 cm. Yuzhakova pit, Alabashka pegmatite field, Urals, Russia. MRdK No 13208. f. Topaz with...Rubellite (elbaite), crystal 14 x 18 cm. Alabashka pegmatite field, Urals, Russia. MRdK Original label (only...growth centers reside because of the crystal force field concentration. Then, as mentioned, the growth tendency... Specimen and photo: Boris Kantor. Photo 4. Fluorapatite, crystals up to 0.6 cm wide. Lukhunistskali..."floaters" (Photo 3). O::casionally, small tabular fluorapatite crystals occur (Photo 4). However, nature does |  | | Book | | magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite (Robinson and Chamberlain, 1982), with ilmenite...during the 1970s (see this entry for Actinolite, Fluorapatite, Prehnite, Pumpellyite). Ilmenite was found...furnish excellent specimens of gemmy yellow fluorapatite, as well as good specimens of epidote, pyroxene...cm, or as inclusions in quartz, calcite and fluorapatite crystals. Ilmenite may also replace brookite...AFRICA SoumAFRicA N'Chwaning II mine, Kalahari field, Northern Cape [Cape] Province. Although not quite |  | | Journal (issue) | | traveled to England a number of times to visit and field collect with his friend Peter Briscoe (especially...Collection (in storage since the 1840s). Tim started field collecting on his holidays in the early 1980s, and...in Nevada at Mt. Wheeler. Perhaps his favorite field-collecting day was at the Himalaya mine in 1989...gems because of their softness (about that of fluorapatite) and lack of perfect clarity, but many crystals...the Toledo area—Guide to thirty-seventh annual field conference of the Section of Geology, May 5, 1962: |  | | Book | | identify gems and cannot be considered a gemology field guide or handbook. Previously unpublished photographs...Henry VIIl of England did when they met on the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520 in the hope of political...reach the beryl or tourmaline crystals found in a pegmatite. Be- pound accommodations golden gems, with...Badakhscan, 5 by 5 cm. Sorbonne collection Afghanistan rocks with no direct relationship to intrusions;...tourmaline). (for example, watermelon If the crystal field is not uni- form over the gem (as in anisotropic |
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Mawi pegmatite, Nilaw-Kolum pegmatite field, Nuristan, Afghanistan