 | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens is from the Dattaw mine, Mogok, Pyin-Oo-Lwin district, Mandalay Division. It consists of green crystals...in marble from the Koksha Valley, Badakhshan Province. In neighboring Pakistan very fine crystals of diopside...microcline have come from Alchuri (sometimes spelled Alchori), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals in the...largest approximately 2.5 cm. Also associated with Alchuri diopside are epidote, actinolite, and zoisite....between Alchuri and Shigar at Hashupa (sometimes spelled Hashupi), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gray and Hungry: An Early Mineral Buying Trip to Pakistan (Part II) Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals International...302 Louisville, CO 80027 After having crossed the Gilgit River at the Alam bridge, satisfied that I had...companions and I turned and ambled up the Indus Valley toward Skardu, on one of the only two mostly-sunny...foreboding gorge guarding the lower entrance to the valley. It turned out to not be a mine per se, but an... May 2004 Mineral News 3---- Mineral Buying in Pakistan (Continued from page 1) Local people set to work |  | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . 513 by D. Blauwet Minerals from Alchuri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Famous Mineral Localities Alchuri Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals...deposits near the small village of Alchuri in the Shigar Valley, Pakistan, have produced attractive specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | clinozoisite crystals 6 cm tall, from Hashupa, Pakistan. Both the large crystal and the smaller one have...found at Hashupa and at Alchuri, in the Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan (Blauwet 2006). âąâGood...niigataite for the type locality, in the Itoigawa-Ohmi district, Niigata Prefecture, in central Japan (Miyajima...2003). It was found in a boulder of prehnite rock in which the prehnite formed typical fan-shaped aggregates...aggregates. Interstitially within the prehnite, the type material consisted of minute pale gray grains intimately |  | | Journal (issue) | | up in Lockenhaus, a town in the Oberpullendorf District of Burgenland, Austria. He immigrated to Australia... Epidote, 11.5 cm, from Alchuri, Shigar district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Gold, 2.3 cm, from the...Australia. Tourmaline, 13 cm, from Paprok, Kamdesh district, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Supplement to The Mineralogical...Trust Aquamarine, 10 cm, from Doi Ty, Quy Chau district, Nghe[â„ An, An Province, Vietnam. Copper with...Australia. Tourmaline, 10 cm, from Paprok, Kamdesh district, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Topaz, 7 cm, from the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Rock Malachite Rhodochrosite Skam Rock Gibbsite Prehnite Probably Others Goethite Psilomelane Limonite...diameter; these are documented from the Hackman Valley, Kola Peninsula, Russia (see Jaszczak et al. (2007)...so no further descriptions can be given here. Prehnite, maybe one of the most typical, well-known rounded...relatively new epidote crystals with spheres of prehnite from Mali; the best of these are truly remarkable...aggregates from Jordansmuhl, Germany and states prehnite occurs most frequently as platy, granular, cockscomb-like |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (below left). Clear dodecahedra of grossular with prehnite, 7 Ă 6 cm, from the Jeffrey mine, QuĂ©bec, Canada...include aegirine, allanite, calcite, epidote, prehnite, titanite, and microcline (HorvĂĄth and Gault 1990)...may be associated with diopside, quartz, augite, prehnite, and laumontite. It has been a long time since...have come from the Uncle Billy Rogers mine, Hope Valley, Alpine County. For those into the lapidary arts...grossular crystals are found with epidote and prehnite in Muota Naira, Val Nalps, Tavetsch, Grissons |  | | Book | | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...(see this entry for Actinolite, Fluorapatite, Prehnite, Pumpellyite). Ilmenite was found in numerous...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Aquamarine beryl, 10.5 cm, Braldu Valley, Skardu, Northem Areas, Pakistan ; Marc Countiss collection; Joe...COLLECTION Schort on albite, 15 cm, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Joe Budd photo. Elbaite, 14.5 cm, Pederneira...photo. Mesolite with apophyllite, 14 cm, Pune district, Maharashtra, India. Joe Budd photo. Apophyllite...Apophyllite on stilbite, 9.5 cm, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, lndia. Joe Budd photo. Arsenopyrite with quartz...stibnite, 8.5 cm, Xionghuang Kuang mine, Wuyu district, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Ex Steve |  | Panikorovskii, Taras L., Chukanov, Nikita V., Aksenov, Sergey M., Mazur, Anton S., Avdontseva, Evgenia Yu, Shilovskikh, Vladimir V., Krivovichev, Sergey V. (2017) Alumovesuvianite, Ca19Al(Al,Mg)12Si18O69(OH)9, a new vesuvianite-group member from the Jeffrey mine, asbestos, Estrie region, QuĂ©bec, Canada. Mineralogy and Petrology, 111 (6) 833-842 doi:10.1007/s00710-017-0495-1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Associated minerals are diopside, grossular and prehnite. Single crystals of alumovesuvianite are transparent...are diopside, grossular, alumovesuvianite and prehnite. General appearance, physical properties and optical...structure of Ti-rich vesuvianite from Alchuri, Shigar valley, Pakistan. Acta Crystallogr B72:744â752 Allen |  | | Journal (issue) | | Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...Number Three Articles The Lonavala Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India . . . . . . . . . . . . ....his two brothers on a remote farm in the Mallee district of western Victoria, Australia. His tertiary education...Ghat (about 15 km east of Karad, in the Satara District). The presence of pentagonite in India was not...GRAP Y BIRCH, W. (1977) Cavansite from the Poonah district, India. Mineralogical Record, , 61â62. FRANK, |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: Minerals of the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia ........................sprays on shattuckite, 7.1 cm, from the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia. Irv Brown specimen; Jeff...Huamin Empire Plaza 726 Yan An Shi Road Changning District, Shanghai City China 200050 Email: chen@irocks...JOAQUIM CALLEN PHOTO STONETRUST ~r/t/w KAOKOVELD DISTRICT Robert J. Bowell ' Olga Ermolina 2 Wim van der...van Us 3 Marius Steiner 4 The Kaokoveld copper district is currently an excellent source offine minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...Mineralogy of the Spring Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number...and 1909, the mines of the Last Chance mining district produced significant quantities of copper and...Watsonâs inlaid âtablets,â French axinite and prehnite, Russian gem crystals and copper minerals. For...Record, volume 36, MayâJune, 2005 Figure 10. Prehnite from La Combe de la Selle, Saint Christophe-En-Oisans |  | | Journal (issue) | | ofkoritnigite in samples from the Schwarzenberg district, Saxony, Germany. The two analyzed samples published...13' Estatoby, near the reservoir in the Sahatany valley, in the region of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Armenite...interlocking crystals, from Telfer mine, Rudall River District, East Pilbara, Western Australia. Zunyite with...the massif with the same name, in the Ayan-Maya district, Khabarovskiy Kray, Russia. Triplite, an unusual...translucent and bright red, from Alchuri, Gilgit, Baltistan, Pakistan. One of the most important specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...fluorite from an exceptional find at Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Kosnarite was later found in Brazil in the Jenipapo district. Kosnar assembled an extensive suite of some of...Fluorite r Exceptional New Find at Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan Roberto Appiani Via A. Mantegna, 1 I-20058 Villasanta...near a side valley of the Hunza River Valley in the Nagar district, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Although |  | | Journal (issue) | | demonstrate the trichroism; from Merelani, Umba Valley, Tanzania. F. John Barlow collection; photo by...deposits of the Antelope (Majuba Hill) mining district, Pershing County, Nevada. M.S. thesis, University...face of the range bordering the upper Salmon River Valley. These faults and a vertical joint system, comÂ...minerals identified visually include epidote, prehnite, pyrite and quartz. COLLECTING STATUS AND CONDITIONS...Along w ith the usual pegm atite m inerals from Pakistan we carry som e of the harder to find specim ens: |  | | Journal (issue) | | gold specimens to 3.8 cm, from the Santa Elena district. F. John Barlow collection; Wendell Wilson photo...grossular (âhessoniteâ) garnets and some of the best prehnite, pectolite and vesuvianite specimens in the world...England Wheal Duchy (Huel Dutchy) in the Callington District near the eastern border of Cornwall, was opened...mimic the morphology of claudetite from Imperial Valley, California as illustrated by Palache (1934), shown...crystal with epitactic spessartine, 3 cm, from Pakistan. Jeff Fast photo; J. S. White collection. would |  | | Journal (issue) | | area is basically everywhere except the Dale Beck Valley, Dry Gill and Carrock End Mine. Grahamis hoping... mid Wales, northeast Wales, Derbyshire, Lake District, mid Pennines, North Pennines (classic for smithsonite)...around each of these areas, starting with the Lake District. Mention was made of the 10 ton block of smithsonite...its interesting report on Iron, the Pentyrchand District Local History Society has recently published an...Dave's microscope at his fine selection of Neath valley slag minerals, gleaned from many tflousands of |  | | Book | | occurs in cavities of volcanic rocks together wilh prehnite, zeolites and calcite. Crystals are known from...Norway; large crystals also occur in the Temiskaming district, Quebec, Canada; tabular crystals up to 120 mm...Czech Republic. lt is common in the Coeur d' Alene district, Idaho, USA. Acicular crystals up to 30 cm ( L2...10 mm (3/M in) long were described from Burra district, Southern Australia, Australia. Crystals up to...cm in size, are known from pegmatites in Nagar, Pakistan. Nice crystals were also found in greisens in |  | | Journal (issue) | | Oregon Agate and Mineral Society and the Tualatin Valley Gem Club, and a member of the Pacific Northwest...Vuonnemite was first described from the Vuonnemi River valley, Khibina massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia as a new...Hailing from the renowned Herja mine, Maramures district, Rumania, the 2-cm quartz crystals occur as simple...complex rare-earth pegmatite at Mt. Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi. It is the rare amphibole species arfvedsonite...collected last summer at Nieosla, Basha Valley, Baltistan, Pakistanâ and Andreas Weerth and Herb Obodda said |  | | Book | | occurs in cavities of volcanic rocks together with prehnite, zeolites and calcite. Crystals are known from...Norway: large crystals also occur in the Temiskaming district, Quebec, Canada; tabular crystals up to 120 mm...Czech Republic. It is common in the Cocur d'Alene district, Idaho, USA. Acicular crystals up to 30 cm (12...10 mm (J/s in) long were described from Burra district. Southern Australia, Australia. Crystals up to...cm in size, are known from pegmatites in Nagar, Pakistan. Nice crystals were also found in greisens in |  | | Journal (issue) | | localities of the former Soviet Union, Bolivia and Pakistan), who, with Dr. Liu and Herr Ottens, have compiled...passed through a narrow valley with many banana and orange trees. As the valley THE LOCALITY: SETTING...houses. At an elevation of 800 meters a hanging valley began, and what had been the good asphalt road...outcrops of granite. From the sides of the hanging valley itselfâto the extent that one could see through...500 meters along a trail, up into a little side valley. Here, enormous amounts of rubble, consisting of |  | | Book | | Rybicki) 7:72-77 Chalcanthite from the Helvetia district, Arizona (by G. Robinson) 9:252 Cuprite [from...Arizona (by W. A. Thompson) 11:248-250 The Tombstone district, Cochise County, Arizona (by S. A. Williams) 11:251-257... A. Scovil) 21:99-100 Arizona's Silver mining district (by P. Bancroft & G. Bricker) 21:151-168 The Fat...24:67 Famous mineral local.ities: the Rush Creek district, Marion County, Arkansas (by D. A. Richards) 24:285-299...E. Wilson) 19:75 ARNO RNER VALLEY Minerals from the upper Arno River Valley, Tuscany, Italy (by M. Corazza |
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Alchuri alpine-type clefts, Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan