 | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | the safflorite-coated silver from the old Cobalt District of Ontario is a nice old-timer: identical-looking...from the Castle mine, Gowganda area, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada. Quebul Fine Minerals specimen...world-class anhydrite which came from the Naica district, Chihuahua, Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s, but...Kharbuzeh (also rendered “Chah Kharboze”) mine, Anarak district, Esfahan Province, Iran. The brilliantly red-orange... 1.4 cm, from the Shah Kharbuzeh mine, Anarak district, Esfahan Province, Iran. Fabre Minerals specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Let’s Get It Right Clinozoisite and Epidote from Pakistan JOHN S. WHITE P.O. Box 332 Stewartstown, Pennsylvania...darker. but still transparent, specimens from Pakistan have actually been identified as epidote, again...the northeast side of the Shigar River in the Masherbrum Range, in Pakistan. According to Dudley Blauwet...kilometers apart that extend north from Hashupa and Alchuri, and clinozoisites are found in both valleys. The...soniedeals with the superb clinozoisites from Pakistan such as the where near the Tormiq River along |  | | 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) | | Newsletter 1 $3.00 Shigar r-------------------------~ Blues "I have got them Shigar Blues" rhythmically...and all, early this morning. Is this day four in Shigar? . Life is timeless here: no newspaper, no news...River in Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan. With the road to Chutron in the Basha Valley blocked because...problematic. Garnet on albite is from Seydar, Ho Nala, Pakistan. D. Blauwet photo. We, my jeep driver, Shaj i...down, down, down to the next bridge crossing the Baltistan. then you may understand. Braldu River and cross |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | (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; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Landslides Revisited and the Second Annual Basha Valley 5 Km Trail Race Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals...over the Raikot Bridge in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. It is 9:00 p.m. and I am musing over the abrupt...expecting a very long day as we are hoping to reach Gilgit, 16 hours distant on a "good" day. I had expected...the top of the Shangri Pass, separating the Swat Valley from Indus Kohistan. There for the first a 1e in...I had hired a land cruiser and driver from the Pakistan tourist development center, and the driver had |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fundamentalists: The First Annual Basha Valley SK Trail Race A Fall buying trip to Pakistan, and assorted running tales...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...a)so from N~gar, with the owner thinking it was apatite until l mformed him otherw ise. This year good...two pieces, l saw only n vo more maJor pieces in Pakistan: a 2 112 " pink dodecahedron with aqua crystals |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Goethite Malachite Rhodochrosite Smithsonite Apatite Pearls Perhaps many others Colloform - rounded...Lepidolite Gyrolite Francolite Pectolite P)Tophyllite Apatite \ itherite Siderite Calcite Aragonite StiJbite...diameter; these are documented from the Hackman Valley, Kola Peninsula, Russia (see Jaszczak et al. (2007)...twinned and had been purchased in Niaslo in the Basha Valley. I examined it and thought that it could possibly...find from the classic alpine cleft deposit of Alchuri. These were very red cross-hatched reticulated |  | | Journal (issue) | | driver to let him know that I wanted to leave for Shigar the following morning and that I did not have time...and to travel all of the way to Nyet in the Shigar Valley. I then walked to another shop and talked to...The second lot opened was of some gemmy town of Shigar, with minimal traffic as the end of the tourist...holy day. There was a new road currently Braldu Valley. Both of these were put on hold and I returned...returned to the being built through the village of Shigar, which bypassed the hotel to find several other dealers |  | | Book | | 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...ilmenite crystals to 7 cm in pale brown nepheline/apatite matrix were found in the nearby Vislmevye Moore...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) | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | notes and observations on clinozoisite-epidotefrom Pakistan that you may wish to add to your database. My...designation of clinozoisite for minerals from the Alchuri location may not be quite so straightforward.I...from this area, all reliably labeled as from Alchuri, Pakistan. The first was labeled as epidote and is a...both clinozoisite and epidote can occur at the Alchuri locality, although the composition probably ranges...discriminator of speciation, as material from Alchuri with a comparatively pale color may still be epidote |  | | Journal (issue) | | Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations, tungstenite...Annual Index for Vol. 13 - Authors Thomas Bucholz Apatite and Lithium Bearing Muscovite. From Central Wisconsin...of the Thomas Vein, Central Kentucky Fluorspar District 13-7: 1.6-8; Minerals near Tateville. Pulaski...13-9:4.5 Alfredo Petrov New Locality for Large Apatite Crystals near Potosi, Bolovia 13-4: 13; Osaka Show...Mexico 13-7:2.9,10 Antimony Washington 13-5:5 Apatite Mexico 13-5:6-9: Wisconsin 13-6:6 Apophyllitc Washington |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sheet mica pegmatite mines of the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell and Yancey counties. Relatively productive...replaced by anatase), allanite, monazite, xenotime, apatite, stilbite, and epidote. Similar rare-earth-bearing...pale tan zircon crystals from Mount Malosa, Zomba district, Malawi. Lino Caserini specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...locations are Rio do Paixe and Santa Terezinha district, Campos Verdes. Sharp zircon crystals to 1.5 cm...Vizze and in Fassatal Valley, Tretino-Alto Adige, Italy, and in Stubachtal Valley, Salzburg, Austria. Russian |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lonavala in the west of the Pune District and near Alibag in Raigad District. Come the day we visited 5 new...3 million people (and growing) situated in the District of Pune - some 200 kms from east to west and 160...complex (Sawda) producing mineral specimens in this District. However, to label specimens as simply as being...MAHARASHTRA District e.g. Pune Collecting Sites KARNATAKA 1. Sawda Quarry Jalgaon District 2. Tisgaon...Tisgaon Quarry Aurangabad District Ahmadnagar District 3. Nllwandl Dam Quarry 4. Shrl Krishna Shanti |  | | Book | | rEarth ScienceMonographs Volume б Lauf 4880 Lower Valley Road, Arglen, Pennsylvania 19310 Other Schiffer...Published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 4880 Lower Valley Road Atglen, PA 19310 Phone: (610) 593-1777; Fax:...the spectacular finds of anatase and brookite in Pakistan in the last five years, the author considers it...material ;ure 2. Faceted rutile from Zegi Mountain, Pakistan. The stones are very dark, but with strong backlighting...Figure 3. Faceted anatase from Kharan, Baluchistan, Pakistan. As with the rutile in the previous photo, the |  | | 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, , 61–62. FRANK, |  | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....pegmatite localities, and he collected at Mt. Apatite, Auburn, Maine (1967), the Pulsifer quarry, Paris...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | were combined under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey 168 PRODUCTION AND MARKETS...militant Taliban were forcing residents of the Swat Valley, which had been closed for nearly a decade, to...finance terrorist activities (“Emeralds from Swat Valley. . . ,” 2009). The decade also saw the rise in...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 |  | | 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...An “extraordinarily beautiful” tourmaline with apatite in Crichton’s collection, from the then-new occurrence...artist White Watson. Journal of the Bakewell and District Historical Society, no. 8, 1– 9 + 12 un-numbered |
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Alchuri alpine-type clefts, Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan