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Zoisite from
Khaltaro, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan


Locality type:Valley
Classification
Species:Zoisite
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlAl)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zoisite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Khaltaro, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:481812
Long-form Identifier:1:3:481812:0
GUID (UUID V4):6cab920d-144a-4e44-825c-ca58c882ee65
Nearest other occurrences of Zoisite
64.1km (39.8 miles) Tormiq Valley, Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
90.2km (56.1 miles) Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
94.9km (59.0 miles) Alchuri alpine-type clefts, Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
96.1km (59.7 miles) Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
99.6km (61.9 miles) Hashupa epidote occurrence, Hashupa alpine-type clefts, Hashupa, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...19.6 cm high Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan P hoto by Jeff Scovil Collection
Journal (issue)
from the C en ten n ia l Eureka m in e, T intic district, Juab C ounty, U ta h ..........................end o f the Wallapai Mining District. The major mining centers of the district included Cerbat, Chloride...is gener­ ally at a stand-still throughout the district. The town of Cerbat played a lively role in the...the Cerbat M ountains and the Wallapai Mining District is extremely complex and beyond the scope of this...mine. DINGS, M. G. (1951) The Wallapai mining district, Cerbat Moun­ tains, Mohave County, Arizona. U
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Muling, China More on Emeralds from Chitral, Pakistan Forsterite-Serpentine from North-eastern China...in 2021 in the Chitral region of north-western Pakistan. Following an earlier description of pale-coloured...to emeralds from Afghanistan and elsewhere in Pakistan. The Chitral emerald specimen shown here measures... Comparison of Emeralds from the Chitral District, Pakistan, with other Pakistani and Afghan Emeralds...years) 576 Laos (1.3-1.2 Ma) Nepal (>5.6 Ma) Pakistan (>16 Ma) Paleogene Cretaceous Past 100 Ma Cambodia
Journal (issue)
Volume 38 / No. 3 / 2022 Emerald from Chitral, Pakistan Turquoise from Xinjiang, China Emerald Jewels...Gem Notes 234 Emerald from the Chitral Region, Pakistan: A New Deposit Emerald with BertranditePhlogopite...Tourmaline King Mine, Pala, California, USA The Pala District in San Diego County, California, USA, is famous...Gem- and Lithium-bearing Pegmatites of the Pala District, San Diego, California. Special Report 7-A, Division... FEATURE ARTICLE Emerald from the Chitral Region, Pakistan: A New Deposit Carina Silke Hanser, Bilal Gul
Book
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
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Pamir Mountains, USSR; (13) 10.15-ct pink topciz, Pakistan; (14) 6.70-ct sapphire, Kashmir, India; (1516...gemstones (tourmaline, aquamarine, etc.) from Brazil, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and several countries in Africa...Zambia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar (Malagasy Republic), Pakistan, and Afghanistan. However, important new mining...other continents as well. In Africa, the Kitwe district in Zambia has become a major source of good, strongly...Zimbabwe, Zambia (figure 4), Namibia, Madagascar, Pakistan, and India. Much of the material from Nigeria
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FEATURE ARTICLES 166 Benitoite from the New Idria District, San Benito County, California Brendan M. Laurs...Benitoite Gem mine, the geology of the New Idria district and current mining there, and the gemological...Fall 1997 165 BENITOITE FROM THE NEW IDRIA DISTRICT, SAN BENITO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By Brendan M. Laurs...world, the Benitoite Gem mine in the New Idria district of San Benito County, California. A barium titanium...from only one region in the world, the New Idria district of San Benito County, California. Benitoite was
Book
(sulfides of Ag, Pb, Cu, and Zn) in the Charcas mining district, San Luis Potosi. The area is characterized by...intrusion-related (Austria, Egypt, Australia, Pakistan), and some unclassified deposits. Keywords: emerald...Brazil, Zambia, Russia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (Figure 3) are the largest producers...ophiolites in Bulgaria, Canada, China, India, Pakistan, Russia, and Spain. Colombian emerald deposits...Kaliguman); 38: Gubaranda (Orissa state). Pakistan: 39: Khaltaro; 40. Swat valley. Afghanistan: 41. Panjshir
Journal (issue)
Cover Picture Faceted sapphire from Cyangugu district, SW Rwanda. See Investigations on sapphires from...Sapphires have been discovered in the Cyangugu district in south-west Rwanda (bordering Zaire) and details...Abstract A new deposit of sapphires in the Cyangugu district of SW Rwanda has been investigated. The sapphires...sapphire deposit in a basalt province in the Cyangugu district, SW Rwanda (Figure 1). This investigation was...representative sapphire samples from the Cyangugu district were selected for the laboratory and investigated
Journal (issue)
garnet, spinel, kornerupine, phlogopite, and zoisite. The assemblage formed under amphibolite and granulite...Afghanistan (Jegdalek), Nepal (Chumar and Ruyil), Pakistan (Hunza Valley and Nangimali), Myanmar (Mogok and...related to micro-shear zones, as at Nangimali in Pakistan 3. In pockets associated with orthoclase, phlogopite...ruby deposit at Aappaluttoq, in the Fiskenæsset district, Greenland. The ruby mineralization is hosted...(including amphibole, pyroxene, garnet, epidote, and zoisite) or Mg-rich silicates (such as phlogopite, diopside
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was found Sandawana Emeralds in the Belingwe district (now Mberengwa) by Laurence Contat and Cornelius...marks the closure of the Paleotethys Ocean; the Pakistan emeralds occur in the Indus suture zone, which...which is the collision margin between the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent and Asia; and the occurrence of emeralds...de Goiás deposits of Brazil, certain mines in Pakistan, and the Mananjary region in Madagascar. From...that emeralds from the Swat and Makhad mines in Pakistan do not contain any amphibole fibers and needles
Book (edition)
extensive fields in the prophetically named Kimberley district of Western Australia promise to be of world importance...comprehensive main table of constants. The new blue zoisite gemstone, Tanzanite, has called for an alteration...the only gem material of the zoisite species, has now been entitled ‘Zoisite’ in order to cover more conveniently...Himalayas in Pakistan; rubies also from the Himalayas in 33 The Geological Sources of Gems Pakistan and Nepal...Mining Kimberlite at the Majhgawan deposit, Panna District, Madhya Pradesh, India one of a variety of underground
Journal (issue)
O'Donoghue lectured on The geology and gemstones of Pakistan to the Ravensbourne Geological Society on 8 July...Dorking, Surrey Sayed, Mahta Bali Shah, Karachi, Pakistan Sheppard, Gary Richard, Wellington, New Zealand...Afghanistan: —Jegdalek, Kabul, ruby, 361 —Laghman district new gems, 59 —Nuristan, Paprock, 497 —Pech, Kunar...364 —Mexico, Veracruz, 250 —occurrences, 232 —Pakistan, Karakoram Mts, 434 —sceptre, Madagascar, 364;... 453, 463, 464, 467, 468 —gift to GAGTL, 570 —Pakistan, Karakoram Mts, 434 —USSR, Pamirs, 434 Apophyllite:
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country. M.O'D. The Illinois-Kentucky fluorite district. A. GOLDSTEIN. Mineralogical Record, 28(1), 1997...'Cave-inRock', in fact a small area in a much larger district). While Abstracts - Gems and Minerals some crystals...389 thirty years ago. Spessartine garnets from Pakistan, marketed as 'Kashmirine', are from Azad Kashmir...amphibolite, Khaltaro granite pegmatitehydrothermal vein system, Haramosh Mountains, northern Pakistan. B.M.... J.J. In the Nanga Parbat massif of northern Pakistan hydrothermal veins ranging from 0.1-1 m in thickness
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Gem News International Demantoid from northern Pakistan • Pyrope-almandine from Ethiopia • New ruby and...Mujimanzovu’s village in the Musakashi area, Solwezi district, central Zambia. In August 2002, one of the authors...green beryls from Somondoco, Colombia and Khaltaro, Pakistan. The non-emerald analyses from those localities...trend of beryls from Somondoco (Colombia) and Khaltaro (Pakistan) that range from colorless or pale blue to...(Brazil), Sandawana (Zimbabwe), and the Swat Valley (Pakistan). The UV-Vis spectra can only help distinguish
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Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity Co., Michigan Bluff district, Placer Co., in AK, placers at Fairbanks, Iditarod...and quartz veins at Juneau. In Canada, Noranda district, PQ; Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, and Larder Lake...deposits, ON; Atlin and Caribou, BC; and Klondike district, YT. In Mexico, Altar and Magdalena, SON; Parral...localities, AZ; Calico district, San Bernadino Co., Cerro Gordo(*), Inyo Co., Bodie district, Mono Co., and other...in CA. In Canada, at Cobalt(*) and Thunder Bay district, ON, Highland Bell mine(*), Beaverdell, BC, and
 
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