 | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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) | | Holt (1990) 6 Santa Teresa Mountains, Aravaipa district, Graham County, AZ, USA Santa Teresa Mountains...beryl Moore (2009); Ross (1925) 7 South Platte district, Buffalo Creek, Jefferson County, CO, USA Pikes...(1968); Kunz (1884); Pegau (1929) 10 Petaca district, Rio Arriba County, NM, USA Intrusive into metamorphic...pegmatite in a NYF Muscovite Class field spodumene, pollucite, beryl, microlite, amazonite Wise and Brown (2009);...(2009); Swanson and Veal (2010) 12 Middletown district, Middlesex County, CT, USA Intrusive into metamorphic |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Cartographer William W. Besse, Green Valley, AZ Rocks & Minerals is available online at Editorial...Limoeiro Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara~uaf Pegmatite District, . Minas Gerais, Brazil, Michael A. Menzies Signature...5 cm, Limoeiro mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara<;uar district, Minas Gerais, Brazil; private collection, Jeff...• Markus Raschke - The South Platte Pegmatite District of Colorado: New Insights into Mineralogy, Petrogenesis...brazilianite; euclase; chrysoberyl; petalite; pollucite; tantalite; cassiterite; apatite, monazite, and |  | | Journal (issue) | | from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail & Jim Spann...Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection; Joe Budd...Katlang, Mardan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo. Tanzanite...collected fluorescent minerals in the Karnes Uranium district near my ancestral home in south Texas. Over time...with cleavelandite, 9 cm, from Shengus, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Paul Bordovsky photo. Tourmaline, 11 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Trentino Alto-Adige porphyritic platform in the Fassa Valley and the Siusi Alp; druses of orthoclase and quartz...gamet (hessonite variety) and diopside from the Ala Valley. MINERAL COLLECTING FROM THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY...became world-famous for their discoveries in the Ala Valley, and the Pisani family (father and son, respectively...vesuvianite of the rodingites of Piedmont and the Aosta Valley, the sulfur and gypsum from the Ca' Bernardi and...abandoned Sferliin asbestos quarry in the Malenco Valley, following in the footsteps of Pietro Sigismund |  | | Journal (issue) | | by C. A. Francis Pakistan Gem pegmatites of the Shingus-Dusso area, Gilgit, Pakistan....................species will be inevitable; for instance, the Pakistan pegmatites covered here have also yielded superb...localities: the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, California (by E. E. Foord) [1977, vol. 8, no...Eichholz’s translation, 1971) “Caria” is an ancient district in southwestern Asia Minor. The In dian stones...Gem and lithiumbearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California. California Department |  | | 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) | | Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada for two summers, subleasing the Royal Peacock...principal city of the entire Jequitinhonha River valley (COMIG-Projeto Espinhaço, 2002). Eucalyptus trees...evolution in the same context as that of the Golconda District (see Cornejo et al., 2019). As the mineralized...did not find a market. On the other side of the valley, nestled near the visited area, there are pegmatites...also 323 Figure 12. A view of the Fanado River Valley area in Capelinha, with several garimpo operations |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | black tourmaline, 7.5 × 3.2 × 3.0 cm, Shigar Valley, Pakistan; David London specimen and photo. (b) Beryl...muscovite, 11.5 × 11.0 × 7.0 cm, Haramosh Mountains, Pakistan; Dan Weinrich specimen and photo. (c) Beryl variety...Pederneira claim, (g) (h) São José da Safira, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Joe Budd photo, courtesy...lepidolite, and albite, 26 × 17 × 13 cm, Kunar Valley, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan; Joe Budd photo...and feldspar, 9.9 × 5.5 × 5.1 cm, Dassu, Shigar Valley, Skardu, Pakistan; Joe Budd photo, courtesy of The |  | | Catalog/List | | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...5:00 PM ET LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Thursday...grow. 73001 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) Looking almost like...com/6150 73002 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) For those that have...750 73003 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) As if Momeik doesn’t |  | | Journal (issue) | | Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations, tungstenite...of the Thomas Vein, Central Kentucky Fluorspar District 13-7: 1.6-8; Minerals near Tateville. Pulaski...Washington 13-5:5 Plumbomicrolite Russia 13-3: 1,4,5 Pollucite Maine 13-1:4; Colorado 13-9: 1,2 Polydymite Australia...near Aldama: quartz, 138: 1,6.7; Santa Eulalia District: goethite, quartz, 13-8: 1.6,7: Naica: gypsum...molybdenite, pyrite, quartz. 13-8: 1,6,7; Santa Eulalia District: arsenopyrite. calcite, fluorite, quartz. smithsonite |  | | Journal (issue) | | travel restrictions as to s~~eral bazaa rs in Pakistan have been closed by the authont1es. The 9ealers...Giazotto, photo by Claus Hedegaard. News from Pakistan New Finds and Information Dudley Blauwet Mountain...Minjan. This is a Tajik speaking area in the Kokcha Valley about 80 km from the capital of Faizabad and 40...Andjuman Pass which connects the Kokcha and Panshjer Valley to the south. They are working between 7,000 and...Shahi-Salim Mountains to arrive in Pakistan at Garam Chisma, Chitral Valley. I bought an extraordinary lot |  | | 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...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...The thin-tabular ilmenite crystals of the Torrniq Valley also form spherical aggregates ("closed roses") |  | | Report (issue) | | Schor! and microcline from Pakistan's world famous Gilgit area. The schorl is 4. 7 cm high. Photo Jeff Scovil;...Bronze-brown; streak: yellow-brown; luster: vit district Corinthia in Austria and Slovenia, dravite is...Brazil; Sahatany Valley pegmatite district in Madagascar; Nigeria; Namibia; Nuristan Valley, Afghanistan...Afghanistan and the Malkhan district in Russia's Transbaikal region have been the source of many exceptional specimens...is also found in other locations in the Sahatany Valley in Madagascar; Transbaikal region of Russia; Minas |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mogok belongs to Mogok Township, in Pyin-U-Lwin District, in Mandalay Division, which borders Sagaing Division...January–February, 2022 Figure 3. The Ruby Mining District in Burma around Mogok, as surveyed by R. Gordon...have also yielded fine specimens of hambergite, pollucite, topaz, quartz, aquamarine beryl and lepidolite...which he had heard on his travels concerning a “valley of serpents” which was littered with diamonds but...Hunters would throw chunks of raw meat into the valley, vultures would snatch the meat away from the snakes |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...Collection LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...Mine (Apex-Dixie Mine), Jarvis Peak, Tutsagubet District, Beaver Dam Mountains, Washington County, Utah...Quarry, Jalgaon, Dindori (Dhindori), Nashik District (Nasik District), Maharashtra, India As straightforward... 53007 WULFENITE Shaft 11, Touissit, Touissit District, Oujda-Angad Province, Oriental Region, Morocco |  | | Journal (issue) | | completely exhausted, and future returns from this district will have to be drawn from the lode at a much...during the 30's was a mine in the desolate Pi Ibara District of western Australia, which operated only a few...of tantalum (tantalite and wodginite), cesium (pollucite) and lithium (petalite and spodumene). Mineralogical...mineral resources of the index, 3 , olumes. Wodgina district: Western Australia Geological Sur\'ey. Simpson...report). four: The Wodgina tantalum-tin pegrnatite district, in Ellis, H. A., I 950, Some economic aspects |  | | Journal (issue) | | 5olnechпogoorskoe 19. Privetпoe (Кигu- Uzeп ) 20. Voroпskaya Valley 21, Sudak 22. Ak-Kaya Mountain 23. Topolevka 24...natrolite (!x1), offretite (?x1), phillipsite (!x1), pollucite (?), svetlozerite (+x1), scolecite (x1), stellerite...(former Karagach) (9) — a village in the A1'ma River valley. An outcrop of basic amygdaloidal effusive rocks...production in Norway commenced at deposits of this district in the end of the 1500x. Yserby, Sweden: * 1800...Нeliodor. Ве,уl, albite & muscovite. Shrgar Valley, Pakistan. Crystal - 5.6 cm high. De Natura. Fereoaxinile |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lorda was born in 1971 and grew up in the Napa Valley region of northern California. Before high school...Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region, Tuléar Province, Madagascar. Mim...Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Mim #2060, acquired in 2018... from Ait Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco. Mim #1758, acquired...volume 54, July–August, 2023 Figure 24 (right). Pollucite crystal, 11.2 cm, on an 18-cm matrix, from Laghman |  | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....byssolite. Mono- coast of North America: Kobuk River Valley, Alaska, clinic, C2/m, a,b,c = 9.89, 18.20, 5.31...e.g. on Grossgreiner Mt., overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto...western Sayan Mts., white at Burumskoye, Vitim River Valley, all Siberia, Russia. In many localities in New... Switzerland, also crystals in Obersulzbachtal Valley, Salzburg, Austria. AM 61,178, 1976. Af ghanite |  | | Journal (issue) | | and consisted prim arily o f B oron and D eath Valley borates and associated minerals. M ost o f his...f 21 unpatented claims in the B anner m ining district, Gila C ounty, Arizona. T he group includes the...ont M ining C orporation becam e involved in the district around 1960 (Ramsey, 1973; H ausen, 1982) and...arry -G o o d H ope areas, M aggie C reek m ining district, Nevada. Newmont Exploration Ltd., internal report...and uranium -vanadium deposits o f the M onum ent Valley area, Apache and Navajo C ounties, Arizona. U.S |  | | Book | | for the depositional setting appears to be rift-valley alkaline lakes. This environment is typified by...Northeast Africa, and some of the East African Rift Valley alkaline lakes, e.g., Lake Magadi. The key facts...zoned lithium pegmatites in the White Picacho district, AZ, USA, by London and Burt (1982). Fracture-controlled...Rwanda (von Knorring, 1963); in the White Picacho district, it occurs abundantly as massive, fine-grained...as pseudomorphs after pollucite. The parent pegmatites belong to the pollucite-bearing group of the Bernic |
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