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Aquamarine from
Raikot, Chilas, Diamer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan


Classification
Species:Beryl var: Aquamarine
Formula:Be3Al2Si6O18
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz23 photos of Aquamarine associated with Quartz at this locality.
Muscovite20 photos of Aquamarine associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Albite18 photos of Aquamarine associated with Albite at this locality.
Spessartine6 photos of Aquamarine associated with Spessartine at this locality.
Microcline5 photos of Aquamarine associated with Microcline at this locality.
Schorl3 photos of Aquamarine associated with Schorl at this locality.
Elbaite3 photos of Aquamarine associated with Elbaite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aquamarine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Raikot, Chilas, Diamer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Photo GalleryView Gallery (7 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:481923
Long-form Identifier:1:3:481923:3
GUID (UUID V4):83b15de4-ec0d-4fe7-9e0e-f115bd17c3f3
Nearest other occurrences of Aquamarine
29.9km (18.6 miles) Drot Valley, Astore District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
31.7km (19.7 miles) Bulochi, Drot Valley, Astore District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
40.0km (24.8 miles) Chamachhu Pegmatites, Chamachhu, Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
40.4km (25.1 miles) Sassi, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
40.8km (25.4 miles) Ishkapal, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
45.7km (28.4 miles) Dache, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
46.8km (29.1 miles) Haramosh Peak, Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
49.5km (30.7 miles) Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
52.9km (32.8 miles) Gilgit, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
55.0km (34.2 miles) Khaltaro, Gilgit 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...(variety aquamarine); 19.6 cm high Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan P hoto by
Journal (issue)
page 258. Inside back cover: (left colurnn) Aquamarine-Glenn & Janis Rising collection, page 218; Ruby-Michael...gwindel-Brent Lockhart collection, page 175; Aquamarine-Wally Mann collection, page 193. (rniddle colurnn)...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas... 15 cm, from the Wagholi quarry complex, Pune District, Maharashtra, India. Don and Laura Aaron photo...Aaron photo. Aquamarine with spessartine, muscovite and feldspar, 10 cm, from Raikot, Chilas, Diamar District
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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 Kintore...Australia. Tourmaline, 13 cm, from Paprok, Kamdesh district, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Supplement to The Mineralogical...2020 11 Aloe Family Trust Aquamarine, 10 cm, from Doi Ty, Quy Chau district, Nghe[≥ An, An Province, Vietnam...Australia. Tourmaline, 10 cm, from Paprok, Kamdesh district, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Topaz, 7 cm, from the
Journal (issue)
Gray and Hungry: An Early Mineral Buying Trip to Pakistan (Part I) Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals International...(Continues on page 3) ----2 Mineral Buying in Pakistan (Continued from page 1) And this is where I come...journey up the rugged Karakoram Highway (KKH) in Pakistan with more mental baggage than one should normally...season in the mountains. It is Ramadan to boot.( In Pakistan and Afghanistan they spell and pronounce it Rama=a11with...then sleep hard on the early morning jaunt to Pakistan. The 1st ofNo,·ember da,vned clear and cool, a
Journal (issue)
Basha Valley SK Trail Race A Fall buying trip to Pakistan, and assorted running tales Dudley Blauwet Mountain...December 9, 2002 In recent years, every trip to Pakistan has been beset by problems, ranging from the Afghan...actu ally began there. The German Ambassador 10 Pakistan has an interest in minerals, and readily handed...two pieces, l saw only n vo more maJor pieces in Pakistan: a 2 112 " pink dodecahedron with aqua crystals...mineral in Spain after Carretona, Ciudad Rodrigo District. Salamanca Province, Spain I have reported in
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
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...the modem village of Donduran in the Yenipazar district of the city of Aydin in the Turkish Province of
Journal (issue)
Ne Asia Trip - Summer 2002 Burma - Sri Lanka - Pakistan Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals International...marble with some slightly etched crystals of aquamarine-colored apatite. 1 also purchased more of these...bastniisite crystals from Mulagon-Zeega (Warsak, Pakistan), fig. 1. that Andreas Weert h had broug ht. Unfortunately...and after a four- hour layover continued on to Pakistan. a rriving at 8:30 a .m . l slept about four hours...bastnacsitc loca le. The market cemed defic ient in good Pakistan materi:il. and the new tl1111g appearing wen:
Journal (issue)
were combined under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey 168 PRODUCTION AND MARKETS...to the traditional spinel sources of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Myanmar (spinel, if polished elsewhere, is...start operations at the Kagem mine in the Kafubu District, historically Zambia’s largest source of emeralds...ultimately decided in eBay’s favor when the U.S. District Court of New York determined that the burden of... p. 178. ——— (2002b) Gem News International: Aquamarine and spessartine from Tanzania. G&G, Vol. 38,
Report (volume)
evolution of the North Karakoram cover, North Pakistan Zi Gaetan, 39 M., JADouL, F., Erpa, E. & Garzanti...granitoid structure of the Hunza Karakoram, north Pakistan TreLoar, magmatism P.J. & Izatr, C.N. Tectonics...West Pakistan 89 Aumep, Z. Leucocratic rocks from the Bela ophiolite, Khuzdar district, Pakistan Arir...zone of Pakistan Jan, M.Q., Kuan, North Pakistan Kuan, M.A., JAN, B.L. Evolution Pakistan: temporal...reconstruction of the Dir Group: within Kohistan, N. Pakistan Haynes, J.R. & Rex, D.C. evidence for magmatic
Journal (issue)
Asia, and once again the timing of my arrival in Pakistan was not the best. f arrived in Peshawar on May...2002 amidst the saber-rat1ling between fndi a and Pakistan. On May 23, the India Prime Minister Vajpayee...that war was imminent. ~1t as I sit in Peshawar, Pakistan on a return visit on June 11 , ~ tensions were...starting to decrease. Strangely enough, during May in Pakistan it was relatively ca lm with most of the hot rhetoric...Afghan friends say it is no problem to go into Pakistan, with one receiving a farewell kick in the rear
Journal (issue)
the farmer who owns the land), Penha do Norte district, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The new...February 2003, in an alluvial deposit in the Cuiaba district, Gouveia, Minas Gerais. At Costa Mesa Luiz had...Gem-quality forsterite ("peridot") crystals from Suppat, Pakistan are nothing new by now, but Jim Parrish of C.S...Frankfurt, Germany) had a nice selection of new aquamarine from Erongo, Namibia, mostly miniatures in loose...attracted my son William. Andreas Weerth has been to Pakistan recently, and brought back some good crystals
Journal (issue)
Fig. 3 Bournonite twins on pyrite, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department...bcryllonite from N yu t Bruk, Braldu Valley, Baltistan, Northe rn Areas , Paki s tan was espeContinued...to miniature specimens of the light aquamarine s prays from Raikot. C hi las. Northe rn Areas. Paki stan...mica from Arondu. Basha Valley, Northern Areas. Pakistan. From Kira n. Kokcha Valley. Afghanistan were
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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...(Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning in the early...testing to be hematite. Zagi [Zegi] Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings...to 6 cm (2005: 120). Los Remedios mine, Taxco district, Taxco, Guerrero. Ilvaite occurs in the wallrock
Journal (issue)
ut tho ug ht tha t leaving on a 20 hour trip to Pakistan immed iately after the race. including two long...GONE! By Mark l. Jacobson, Colorado's famous aquamarine occurrence, 7 x 10 inch format, 126 pages, 90...same ma n brought up from Wadel, a town at the Pakistan-Iran borde r some matrix specimens of black bladed...there were some excell ent feldspar crystals from Raikot, Northern Areas, s howing a ll three of the more...to Bangkok then to Sri Lanka. back to Bangkok, Pakistan, Germany. and France. When it was obvious that
Journal (issue)
• “Yosemite” topaz • Tourmaline from northern Pakistan • A 23.23 ct tsavorite • TGMS highlights • Vesuvianite...9806-00404, Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Judicial District of Lethbridge/Macleod, July 16. Jackson J.A. (1997)...pegmatite deposits of tourmaline, spodumene, aquamarine, and morganite. According to Dudley Blauwet (Dudley...Iftikhar Hussain (Syed Trading Co., Peshawar, Pakistan) had about 25 faceted emeralds from Laghman, with...Maha Tannous. Colored tourmaline from northern Pakistan. Large quantities of gem tourmaline have been
 
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