 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Auburn Universit Afghanite Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan F eldspathoids are peculiar...lapis lazuli (lazurite) occurrence at Sar-e-Sang, Afghanistan, has produced peculiar specimens containing...(well-formed crystals with hauyne, phlogopite, and calcite). Afghanite from at least one of these localities...marble matrix found at Sar-e-Sang,Kokcha Valley, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. The 11 x 14-cm specimen...on marble matrix from Sar-e-Sang, Kokcha Valley, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. Dr. Marvin D. Rausch |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | publication are situated in the Baikal area, Badakhshan, Hindu Kush, and other Precambrian provinces...Rakhov Massif, Carpathians), in Afghanistan (Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan province), Canada (the Main and North...IN MAGNESIAN SKARNS 977 d Lake Baikal b c a f e 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ⥠10 Fig. 1. Geological...Bystritsa, (b) Tultui, (c) Chernushka, (d) Slyudyanka, (e) Talinskoe, (f) Pokhabinsk. GEOCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL...lazurite deposits in Russia occur in the Slyudyanka district, Irkutsk oblast, southwestern Baikal area, and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | com/loi/tigr20 LOCALIZATION OF LAPIS LAZULI BODIES OF BADAKHSHAN AND THEIR MINERAL ZONATION a G. A. Yurgenson...(1985) LOCALIZATION OF LAPIS LAZULI BODIES OF BADAKHSHAN AND THEIR MINERAL ZONATION, International Geology...ons LOCALIZATION OF LAPIS LAZULI BODIES OF BADAKHSHAN AND THEIR MINERAL ZONATION G. A. Yurgenson and...ancient times. Although the Sar-e-Sang deposit of lapis lazuli in Afghanistan, which is unique in both its...been discussed in a number of papers [4, 1, 3, 5, e t c . ] , the mineral zonation of lapis lazuli bodies |  | | Report (issue) | | = 21.35(4) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Sar-e-Sang, Afghanistan. 3.688 (100), 3.298 (100), 4.82 (80), 3...07 3.98 100.8 99.88 10.82 0.9 (1) Sar-e-Sang, Afghanistan; corresponds to (Na4:86 Ca3:52 K0:69 )§=9:07...thin veinlets cutting lazurite crystals (Sar-e-Sang, Afghanistan); in siliciÂŻed limestone xenoliths in pumice... vesuvianite, calcite, Distribution: At Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. In Russia, in... Name: For the country of ÂŻrst occurrence, AFGHANistan. Type Material: Mineralogy-Crystallography Laboratory |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | serpentinites. Commonly associated minerals include calcite, dolomite, quartz, clinozoisite, wollastonite,...Associated minerals include aegirine, allanite, calcite, epidote, prehnite, titanite, and microcline (HorvĂĄth...crystals in the collection are associated with calcite. Grossular is also found in a skarn at Bancroft...Associated minerals include meionite, clinozoisite, and calcite. Crystal clusters to slightly under 1 meter across...cm in diameter and associated with vesuvianite, calcite, quartz, wollastonite, and an undetermined scapolite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chemical formulas, but also on how they crystallize. Calcite and aragonite, for example, are both calcium carbonate...Â(CaCO3), but represent different chemical phases. Calcite crystallizes in the trigonal crystal system and...known as polymorphs, and as in the example of calcite and aragonite, warrant a species difference. But...misbehavior: why mineralogists donât deal in⊠Katz, E.: The big lie: human restoration of nature. In: Kaplan... R.: The Sar-e-sang Lapis mines: kuran Wa Munjan district Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. Miner. Rec |  | | Journal (issue) | | ARTICLES 184 Lapis-lazuli from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan Jean Wyarl, Pierre Bariand, and Jean...217 Nonfading Maxixe-Type Beryl? K. Nassau and B. E. Prescott 220 The Cutting Properties of Kunzite John...the fine material that has been produced i n Afghanistan for centuries, as described b y Messrs. Wyart...Robert Crowningshield N e w York, NY Anthony R. Kampf Los Angeles, C A Robert E . Kane Los Angeles, C...C A Pete D u n n Washington, DC Editor, G e m Trade Lab Notes C h u c k Fryer Editor, Gemological Abstracts |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PUBLISHING COMPANY KYANITE-TALC SCHIST FROM SAR E SANG, AFGHANISTAN H. KULKE Geologisches Institut der Ruhr-Universit&...close association with the lapis lazuli deposit Sar e Sang schists containing talc and kyanite with or without...with the famous lapis lazuli deposit of Sar e Sang, Afghanistan. Apart from its important bearing on the...University. 2. Geology The lapis lazuli mine Sar e Sang is situated in the upper valley of the river...eastern Hindukush, Province Badakshan, Afghanistan, at 70°48'E/36 ° 12'N. In the surrounding high mountains |  | | Report (issue) | | 43n: a = 9.09 Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Sar-e-Sang, Afghanistan. (ICDD 17-749). 3.71 (100), 2.622 (80)...02 0.78 3.87 8.71 1.84 0.67 99.62 (1) Sar-e-Sang, Afghanistan; corresponds to (Na5:88 K0:25 )§=6:13 (Ca...metamorphic mineral in limestones. Association: Calcite, pyrite, diopside, humite, forsterite, haĂuyne...Distribution: Exceptional crystals from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. Well-crystallized material...rights reserved. No par t of t his publication may b e reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or trans |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Selected Specimens from the E R I K A P OHL-STR ĂHER Downloaded by [University of Virginia, Charlottesville]...Charlottesville] at 11:46 03 August 2012 CO L L E C T I O N Photographs by JEFFREY A. SCOVIL PO Box 7773 Phoenix...Laghman Province, Afghanistan; 2002 photo. Figure 3 (above). Lazurite, 5 cm high, Sar-e-sang, Kokcha Valley...Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan; 2002 photo. Figure 4 (above right). Calcite, 1.3 cm high, Tsumeb, Namibia;...Namibia; 2003 photo. Figure 5 (right). Copper and calcite, 2.9 cm high, Tsumeb, Namibia; 2003 photo. Jeffrey |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | across, Khanong open pit, Sepon mine, Vilabouly district, Laos. Irv Brown specimen. TUCSON (Dis) Plays...1.1 cm high, Amelia mine, Santa Rosalia, Boleo district, Baja California, Mexico. Irv Brown specimen....Sterbentz specimen. Figure 5 (right). Celestine with calcite, 12.3 cm high, Holloway quarry, Newport, Michigan...with pyrite, 2.4 cm high, Sar-e-Sang, Kokscha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Alex Schauss specimen. ... 1 cm high, Amelia mine, Santa Rosalia, Boleo district, Baja California, Mexico. Jack Halpern specimen |  | | Journal (issue) | | 48 âą NUMBER 5 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Wendell E. Wilson minrecord@comcast.net Associate Publisher...SEPTEMBERâOCTOBER 2017 Gem pegmatites of Northeastern Afghanistan By Peter Lyckberg Contents Introduction ......FineMineral.com NATIVE SILVER WITH PYRRHOTITE AND CALCITE Kongsberg Silver Mines, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway...Moffitt (2016â2017) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS David E. Ellis (2012â2017) Nicholas F. Stolowitz (2016) Alex...www.budil-minerals.com Frontispiece. Map of Afghanistan and surrounding area in 1887. The pegmatite areas |  | Giuliani, Gaston, Dubessy, Jean, Ohnenstetter, Daniel, Banks, David, Branquet, Yannick, Feneyrol, Julien, Fallick, Anthony E., Martelat, Jean-Emmanuel (2018) The role of evaporites in the formation of gems during metamorphism of carbonate platforms: a review. Mineralium Deposita, 53 (1) 1-20 doi:10.1007/s00126-017-0738-4 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Yannick Branquet 6,7 & Julien Feneyrol 8 & Anthony E. Fallick 9 & Jean-Emmanuel Martelat 10 Received:...lapis-lazuli in marble and/or calc-silicate rocks from Afghanistan (Fig. 1). Previous studies highlighted special...Africa (Groat 2014) and lapis-lazuli of Sar-e-Sang in Afghanistan (Faryad 2002) allowed the characterisation...crystals on quartz and adularia, Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, 6.6 Ă 4.4 cm. Specimen Fine Art Mineral. d Ruby...matrix, Minh Tien mine, Luc Yen mining district, Vietnam, 2 Ă 1 cm. e Nodule, rough and cut of tsavorite |  | | Report (issue) | | Herbâs former stomping grounds in Pakistan and Afghanistan. One of the most impressive of the European classics...the ancient lapis lazuli mines of Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. 1 ï„===========================...photo. Sodalite, 5 cm, from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. Arkenstone specimen; Joe Budd...Peruvian metal deposits, those of the Casapalca district have a significant zone of oxidation, with secondary...of botryoidal orange mimetite from the âAnarak districtâ (probably, Iâm willing to say, from the Tchah |  | | Book | | and sapphires from Ceylon, lapis-lazuli from Afghanistan, turquoise from Persia, jade from China, opal...connected to the retraction of the original lode - i. e., the druses of pegmatites, with a high content of...History, London: pages 56c, 78a, 88a. Ecole Nationa/e Superieure des Mines de Paris: pages 24a, 26b, 38a...pegmatites overlapping with aluminum-rich rocks, calcite pegmatites and cipolins (crystalline limestones)...(0.6 inch) 8 Ruby, Jegda/ek, Sorobi, Kapisa, Afghanistan (0.8 inch) 24 SPIN EL Magnesium and aluminum |  | Chukanov, Nikita V., Sapozhnikov, Anatoly N., Shendrik, Roman Yu., Vigasina, Marina F., Steudel, Ralf (2020) Spectroscopic and Crystal-Chemical Features of Sodalite-Group Minerals from Gem Lazurite Deposits. Minerals, 10 (11) 1042 doi:10.3390/min10111042 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The oldest Sar-e Sang deposit was discovered in ancient times in the Koksha valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan...originatesfrom fromthe the deposits deposits of the Badakhshan lapis lazuli province. In In this this sample...large colorless single-crystal single-crystal calcite calcite individuals individuals (Figure (Figure 1)...coarse-grained calcite. Figure 1. blue sodalite-group mineral (the(the KL sample) in coarse-grained calcite. Field...are coarse-grained, massive consisting mainly of calcite, with subordinate diopside and lazurite, and minor |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | n6 (100)(121), ( 4 6 ; ) 1 2 5 1T 1h . e m i n e r a l i s t e t r a g o n a l ,a 9 . 9 1 6 ,c 2 . 8 6...nsutite, birnessite, c r y p t o m e l a n e ,a n d g o e t h i t e . The name is for Manjiro Watanabe...m s ) ( 4 0 0 ) ,1 . 8 6 6G ) ( 4 4 0 ) , 1 . s 8 e( s ) ( 6 2 2 ) ,1 . s 2 a( m ) @ a 9 , 1 . 2 1 0 s...given), r)a,0-1.608, b i r e f r i n g e n c e0 . 0 1 1 . O c c u r s i n g e o d e s w i t h marcasite and...7I.l+1, F e 2 O 31 7 . 3 + I , C l 2 . 3 T a .T h e s e l e a d t o r a t i o s T e O z : F e z O : : C |  | | Journal (issue) | | 51, number 1 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Wendell E. Wilson Associate Publisher: Thomas M. Gressman Editors:...Kaminski Daniel Ulibarri Jim & Imelda Klein Lawrence E. Violett Harris Kominski Chris Whitney-Smith John...sent it to my Representative, Mark Finchem (R-District 11, Oro Valley), asking him to be the primary... Mark Candee Gold, 2.3 cm, from the Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Ken Donn photo. Wulfenite...(hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected in 1958; |  | GREW, E. S., PERTSEV, N. N., YATES, M. G., CHRISTY, A. G., MARQUEZ, N., CHERNOSKY, J. V. (1994) Sapphirine+Forsterite and Sapphirine+Humite-Group Minerals in an Ultra-Magnesian Lens from Kuhi-lal, SW Pamirs, Tajikistan: Are these Assemblages Forbidden?. Journal of Petrology, 35 (5) 1275-1293 doi:10.1093/petrology/35.5.1275 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | enstatite in experiments conducted at a H 2 o = 1 ' n t n e MgO-Al 2 0 3 -Si0 2 -H 2 0 system, it might be stabilized...1987; Grew et al., 1988, 19906). Dolomite and calcite marbles are also present. The origin of the ultra-magnesian...complex extending from the southwestern Pamirs to Sar-e-Sang (Fig. 2), the type locality for whiteschists...+ Rt + Po( + Py) + Gr >65O/5=7 Spr + Chu + Spl + E n ± R t + P o ( + P y ) ± G r >65O/5s7 Assemblages...(1974) table 2 and fig. 7. Abbreviations: Calâcalcite, Chiâchlorite, Chnâchondrodite, Chuâclinohumite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Elegance The Small Treasures of Mineralogy by Wendell E. Wilson Alexander G. Schauss Jim Houran & Robert Lavinsky...53, number 6 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Wendell E. Wilson Associate Publisher & Circulation Director:...Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo Republic. (7) Sodalite, Kokcha Valley, Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite...The Elegant World of Thumbnail Minerals by Wendell E. Wilson & Jim Houran Introduction History Evolution...Schauss & Wendell E. Wilson ï¶ Alexander Schauss: Consummate Connoisseur by Wendell E. Wilson ï¶ Afterword |  | | Journal (issue) | | 50, number 5 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Wendell E. Wilson Associate Publisher & Circulation Director...at www.MineralogicalRecord.com Designed by Wendell E. Wilson Graphic Production by Capital Communications...collection. Elbaite, 7 cm, from Laghman, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Ron Zeilstra collection; Michael Bainbridge...Cornish (WA) John Dagenais (BC) Bill & Diana Dameron (OR) Rick Dillhoff (WA) Sean Finneson (WA) Greg &...Nancy Hendricks (OR) Ray Hill (WA) Alex Homenuke (BC) Bob Jackson (WA) Dave Leppert (ID) Al & Sue Liebetrau |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lazurite, 2.4 cm high, from Sar-e-Sang, Kokcha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Alex Schauss specimen. ...which lazurite is refined, was first mined in Afghanistan and later, in the nineteenth century, in Siberia...hematite, lazurite, realgar, orpiment, barite, calcite, celadonite, glauconite, chrysocolla, cinnabar |  | | Book | | contain phosphate, and pearls contain aragonite and calcite. most of Yet all the splendidly crystallized collector's...are rare in such deposits, though crystals of calcite, celestite, etc. can be found in them from time...faces, all the sides of which are equal (dolomite, calcite). This type gives the most varied shapes, particularly...te = Billictite tau. Brazilianite Brochantite Calcite. = Caledonite esa 2 nee ares funn cee ae: 5-2...Spodumene.. . . 34 Tetrahedrite 52 eer) WOPaZ a says wa 24 Tourmaline........ 26 Triphane ......... 34 Torbenite |  | | Report (issue) | | individual prehnite crystals, and sharp, milky white calcite scalenohedrons to 1 cm are sprinkled on some of...have been liberated by dissolving away enclosing calcite; these do not exceed 1 cm. But there are also a...website specializing in quartz varieties, Pakistan/Afghanistan minerals, and some jewelry on the side. One page...replacement of calcic amphiboles or pyroxenes, or calcite. For sure the thickness of the vein is up to 6...specimens from the Ed David collection. Dr. Edward E. David was science advisor to President Nixon and |  | | Catalog/List | | MARCH/APRIL 2006 1) AFGHANITE. Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. A fairly sharp 20x9mm dark blue...pyramidal terminations partly developed from a white calcite matrix. Sawn base and side so sits well. 50x35x50mm...22) CUPRITE var CHALCOTRICHITE as inclusions in CALCITE. Ajo, Pima Co., Arizona, USA. A thin sheet of veinstone...shows a scattering of about a dozen scalohedral calcite xls to 8mm which have chalcotrichite inclusions...inclusions giving a vivid red colour. I n between the calcite xl and on the reverse of the specimen there are |
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Unnamed meta-evaporite occurrence, Sar-e-Sang, Kuran wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan