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Amphibolite from
Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan


Locality type:Valley
Classification
Type:Amphibolite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amphibolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1016026
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1016026:8
GUID (UUID V4):5b666a5d-a995-4805-a17b-bd6639d8a9c5
Nearest other occurrences of Amphibolite
19.2km (11.9 miles) ⓘChongo, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
26.9km (16.7 miles) ⓘTormiq Valley, Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
81.3km (50.5 miles) ⓘKhaplu, Ghanche District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
91.0km (56.6 miles) ⓘK2 Peak, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
References
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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
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from the C en ten n ia l Eureka m in e, T intic district, Juab C ounty, U ta h ..........................Richard also became charter members o f the Tualatin Valley Gem Club and the Friends of Mineralogy. Over the...surrounding valleys. To the west lies the Sacramento Valley, which drains southwest to the Colorado The Mineralogical...River near Needles. To the east is the Hualapai Valley, which drains north into the Red Lake Playa. The...end o f the Wallapai Mining District. The major mining centers of the district included Cerbat, Chloride
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surveyor ( B a d Shah Jan of the Survey of Pakistan), both from Pakistan, also joined the stafl. The scientific...Survey, M r . M . Aziztrllah of the Survey of Pakistan, and M r . Javed, a student at the University...Indus river, from Skardu as far west as the Stak valley, and the principal ridge of the Karakorum to the...and Gilgit and eastwards as far as Bagicha. The territory covered in 1955 lies between the Gilgit area...Chogo Lungma and the Sosbun glaciers, and the upper valley of the Hunxa river. The present volunze deals with
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(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...schorl, and albite, 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen collection, Scovil...the banks of the Basha River in Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Pakistan. Dudley Blauwet photo, June 12, 2006... Germany; Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Pakistan; near Volyndarsk-Volynsky, Ukraine;
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5.6 cm tall, Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu district, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Private collection, Jeff...muscovite, 7 cm tall, Nagar, Hunza Valley, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. MIM Museum specimen, James Elliott...the Himalayan pegmatites and Alpine clefts of Pakistan and Afghanistan (Blauwet 2013; Rakovan 2013a);...Rural City, Victoria Aberfoyle mine, Rossarden district, Tasmania Complex metamorphosed sedimentary exhalative... Habach Valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg (phyllites and micaschists); Untersulzbach Valley, Salzburg
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Chalt green schist zone 5. Basic intrusives zone 6. Gilgit zone D. References 255 263 264 264 264 264 265...-~ Ganto - la Fm +~ +++ +\Âą n ~ Askore Amphibolite P~ Basic agmatite m ~ Twar Diorite -k- ...the western Hindu Kush. In the western Karakorum, Gilgit Agency, the basement is represented by Pre-Cambrian...account of some fossils collected in the Shaksgam valley and Aghil range (Desio 1936). The lower formations...north of the axial batholith (Baltoro basin, Hunza valley). In the eastern Karakorum the normal sedimentary
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Karakorum Metamorphic complex (Dassu±Askole area, NE Pakistan): exhumation of mid-crustal HT±MP gneisses in...featured by NW±SE structures and associated M1 amphibolite facies metamorphism (0.7 GPa, 700 uC). This M2...in the Karakorum Range (Shigar and Braldu valleys, North of Skardu, NE Pakistan), building on previous...and Askole domes, Fig. 1) in the Skardu area (NE Pakistan) and then to discuss the possible heat source...(8035-8060m) all rV iga lle ey va Indus y 35°30'N Shigar Bt -M 75°00'E Zone of Himalayan Mio-Pliocene
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gold in the Bagrote and Dainter streams, northern Pakistan: Implications for provenance and exploration Masroor...2016YFC0600106 The Bagrote and Dainter valleys in Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan, belonging to the Kohistan island arc...through glacier to the fluvial system. The Gilgit Baltistan province, dominated by dry temperate climate...glacio‐fluvial, microtexture and chemistry, North Pakistan, placer gold, provenance Geological Journal....gold grains and their Bagrote streams, Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan, with a view to trace the inclusions
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Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada for two summers, subleasing the Royal Peacock...principal city of the entire Jequitinhonha River valley (COMIG-Projeto Espinhaço, 2002). Eucalyptus trees...evolution in the same context as that of the Golconda District (see Cornejo et al., 2019). As the mineralized...mafic metavolcanic schist metamorphosed to the amphibolite facies. Such rocks show the effects of metamorphism...did not find a market. On the other side of the valley, nestled near the visited area, there are pegmatites
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Associate Cartographer William W. Besse, Green Valley, AZ Rocks & Minerals is available online at Editorial...Limoeiro Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara~uaf Pegmatite District, . Minas Gerais, Brazil, Michael A. Menzies Signature...5 cm, Limoeiro mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara<;uar district, Minas Gerais, Brazil; private collection, Jeff...‱ Markus Raschke - The South Platte Pegmatite District of Colorado: New Insights into Mineralogy, Petrogenesis...States; the high mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan; Minas Gerais in Brazil; Mozambique and Namibia
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Crystallines of the Stak valley, northeastern Nanga Parbat-Haramosh syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya Ugo Pognante...Crystallines of the Stak valley, northeastern Nanga Parbat-Haramosh syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya U G O P O G...valleys, Pakistan) consist of kyanite-bearing gneiss with minor garnet-granulite and garnet-amphibolite. The...pressure metamorphism, part of the HHC from northern Pakistan underwent very rapid cooling and exhumation. By...recorded by the HHC from regions located east of Pakistan (e.g. Nepal). These differences along strike in
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the large oblique-slip shear zone in the Hunza Valley, N of Kohistan. T h e W e s t e r n H i m a l...Metamorphosed from lower greenschist to lower amphibolite facies. A A A A...'r'T ~ , Z f-) :;o r'r'l...and metaplutonic rocks metamorphosed to upper amphibolite facies. Mostly of volcanic arc origin with possible...8Bi "L/~ / 25.3Bi FIG. 5. Detailed map of the Gilgit area showing published dates. Same sources as for...About 70% of the tonalites and diorites in the Gilgit area make up this undeformed late batholith (see
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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...5.6 cm tall Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit­ Baltistan, Pakistan John Rakovan collection...light) 8.6 cm tall Bulache, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Jonathan Allred col lection, Joe
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Dr. G. Liittig, Erlangen Band 25 GEOL OGY OF PAKISTAN edited by / F. K. Bender and H. A. Raza 1995...BORNTR AEGER · BERLIN · STUTTGART GEOLO GY OF PAKISTAN edited by F .K. Bender and H.A. Raza by D....Developme nt Institute of Pakistan, 230, Nazimuddi n Road F-7 /4, Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr. D. BANNERT, Dr....of Pakistan, FF 2 Block 59, Seaview Township, Defence Housing Authority, Karachi-75500, Pakistan. Prof...University of the Punjab, New Campus, Lahore-54590, Pakistan. Ongoing small scale detachment tectonics within
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and within a shear zone. Greenschist to low-amphibolite 330–470 200–600 553 Blackwall zone, mica...Commune, Mananjary District, Vatovavy Fitovinany Black-wall reaction zones (amphibolite-phlogopite-rich...chromite-bearing serpentinites within a shear zone Amphibolite 250–500 150–200 490 Phlogopite, 40 Ar/39...Commune, Mananjary District, Vatovavy Fitovinany Black-wall reaction zones (amphibolite-phlogopite-rich...chromite-bearing serpentinites within a shear zone Amphibolite 250–500 150–200 490 Phlogopite, 40 Ar/39
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
clinozoisite crystals 6 cm tall, from Hashupa, Pakistan. Both the large crystal and the smaller one have...Hashupa and at Alchuri, in the Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan (Blauwet 2006). ‱ Good crystals...variety byssolite, and numerous other species in amphibolite gneiss at the Keystone trap-rock quarry, Cornog...niigataite for the type locality, in the Itoigawa-Ohmi district, Niigata Prefecture, in central Japan (Miyajima...in a sample of pumpellyite rock from the Wakasa district, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The host rock consisted
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and colorless; from the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. (b) Perthitic texture...overgrowth on Baveno-twinned microcline from Gilgit, Pakistan. accurately, then consider this truthful...schorl and muscovite, Shigar Valley, Haramosh Mountains, Northern Areas, Pakistan. f. Figure 12. (a)...microcline, Nyet, Braldu Valley, Skardu district, Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan. (d) Manebach-twinned...elbaite, and lepidolite, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County, California. (e) Compound Baveno-Manebach
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approximately 30.5 cm high, Shigar Valley, Dasu, northern areas, Pakistan. Figure 24 (top). Azurite with...different kinds of ore deposits: a Mississippi Valley-type leadzinc deposit showing an actual galena...rock specimens, including a beautiful garnet amphibolite from Gore Mountain, New York, four computer interactives
Report (issue)
Spessartine from Tongbei BY BERTOLD OTTENS 70 Pakistan and Afghanistan: Garnet from the Roof of the World...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....garnet cameo swan from the excavations at Taxila, Pakistan (Victoria and Albert Museum, London). During the...mineral of metamorphic rocks such as mica schists, amphibolite, granulite, and gneiss. It often occurs with
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by C. A. Francis Pakistan Gem pegmatites of the Shingus-Dusso area, Gilgit, Pakistan....................species will be inevitable; for instance, the Pakistan pegmatites covered here have also yielded superb...localities: the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, California (by E. E. Foord) [1977, vol. 8, no...Eichholz’s translation, 1971) “Caria” is an ancient district in southwestern Asia Minor. The In­ dian stones...Gem and lithiumbearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California. California Department
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Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...measuring 2.5 X 8 X 12 cm (Pekov, 2000). ASIA PAKISTAN FORMER SOVIBT UNION RUSSIA Dodo deposit near...rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning in...region of Alpine-type clefts along the Torrniq Valley produced small numbers of ilmenite specimens reminiscent...The thin-tabular ilmenite crystals of the Torrniq Valley also form spherical aggregates ("closed roses")
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gressman@minrec.org Articles The Malkhan Pegmatite District Krasny Chikoy, Transbaikalia, Eastern Siberian...the Forgotten Pocket, Sosedka pegmatite, Malkhan district. The same specimen as shown from a different angle...cell.: +43 (0)664 4047940 The Malkhan Pegmatite District Krasny Chikoy, Transbaikalia, Eastern Siberian...discoveries in Brazil, California and the Himalayas. The district has produced over 50 different mineral species...Zabaykalsky Krai, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The district is on the Russian side of the border between the
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Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street ‱ Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom... SESSION ONE 72001 Moldavite (2 pieces) Moldau River Valley Czech Republic The material Moldavite is a product...Millibillillie Meteorite Eucrite-mmict Wiluna District, Western Australia (26° 27’S, 120° 22’E) Fall:...images and bid online, visit HA.com/5386 72082 Amphibolite Sphere Stone Source: Dundas Shire Western Australia...Australia This dark sphere has been carved out of Amphibolite, which is a metamorphic rock. The crystals that
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crystals were from Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Baluchistan, Pakistan (CP). Samples were divided...Epidote, Czech Republic (SobotĂ­n) Clinozoisite, Pakistan (Baluchistan) ES-0 ES-9 ES-10 ES-11 ES-12 CP-0...relations among greenschist, epidote-amphibolite, and amphibolite in a basaltic system. Am. J. Sci. 1983...wollastonite-anorthite, and other cale-silicate assemblages in amphibolite-facies crystalline schists of Nanga Parbat, Northwest
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zoisite has so far only been found in Alchuri, Pakistan, mostly of brownish green color [13] and a small...(accessed on 20 October 2022). Game, P.M. Zoisite-amphibolite with corundum from Tanganyika. Miner. Mag. J...Variety of Zoisite, Merelani Hills, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania. Rocks Miner. 2019,...Variety of Zoisite, Merelani Hills, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania. Rocks Miner. 2020,...Africa, 2006. Blauwet, D. Alchuri Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Miner. Rec. 2006, 37, 513–540
 
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