 | | 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) | | (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...the term "topaz" in reference to the olivines, quartz, and other Topaz crystals can be extraordinarily...Moreover, gold-color quartz ("citrine") is often labeled "topaz quartz" and brown, smoky quartz is sold as "smoky...schorl, and albite, 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen collection, Scovil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | constraints on the Main Karakorum Thrust, Baltistan, northern Pakistan T. ALLEN A N D C. P. CHAMBERLAIN Department...from rocks in the Kohistan-Ladakh island arc. In Baltistan, this suture has been reactivated by the late...suture zone known as the Indus-Tsangpo Suture. In Pakistan, however, the Kohistan-Ladakh volcanic island...Kohistan-Ladakh island arc and the Asian plate (Fig. 1). In Baltistan (boxed area in Fig. 1) the Shyok Suture Zone has...cryptic in this region. Recent work in northern Pakistan has led to the discovery of discontinuities in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Karakorum Metamorphic complex (Dassu±Askole area, NE Pakistan): exhumation of mid-crustal HT±MP gneisses...in the Karakorum Range (Shigar and Braldu valleys, North of Skardu, NE Pakistan), building on previous...domal structures (Dassu and Askole domes, Fig. 1) in the Skardu area (NE Pakistan) and then to discuss...rm ik M M T Zone of 8000 m peaks Gl . Baltoro Braldu Ky St-Grt K2 (8611m) Broad Peak (8051m) Gasherbrum...(8035-8060m) all rV iga lle ey va Indus y 35°30'N Shigar Bt -M 75°00'E Zone of Himalayan Mio-Pliocene |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals of microcline, bladed albite, and smoky quartz are enhanced by a purple or green cube of fluorite...Holt (1990) 6 Santa Teresa Mountains, Aravaipa district, Graham County, AZ, USA Santa Teresa Mountains...biotite-hornblende granite quartz, microcline, beryl Moore (2009); Ross (1925) 7 South Platte district, Buffalo Creek...Rare-Element zircon, allanite, anatase, scepter quartz Roberts et al. (2009); Greenwood (1964); Barker...(1968); Kunz (1884); Pegau (1929) 10 Petaca district, Rio Arriba County, NM, USA Intrusive into metamorphic |  | | 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...government rest house in Dassu, on the Braldu River in Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan. With the road to...to Chutron in the Basha Valley blocked because of road construction, we were forced to change from that...problematic. Garnet on albite is from Seydar, Ho Nala, Pakistan. D. Blauwet photo. We, my jeep driver, Shaj i |  | Garzanti, Eduardo, Vezzoli, Giovanni, AndĂČ, Sergio, Paparella, Paolo, Clift, Peter D. (2005) Petrology of Indus River sands: a key to interpret erosion history of the Western Himalayan Syntaxis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 229 (3) 287-302 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.11.008 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and energy for the rapidly growing population of Pakistan. Nevertheless, Indus River sands as far as the...changes repeatedly and markedly in Ladakh and Baltistan, indicating overwhelming sediment flux from each...500F4700 t/km2 year and 4.5F1.7 mm/year for the Braldu catchment) and Nanga Parbat Massif (8100F3500 t/km2...both sides of the Tethyan suture [4â6]. Northern Pakistan thus represents a superb natural laboratory in...the Indus River and its major tributaries across Pakistan in February 2001. Bedload samples from mountain |  | | Journal (issue) | | from the GachalĂĄ mine, GuaviĂł-GuatĂ©que mining district, BoyacĂĄ Department, Colombia. Gail & Jim Spann...Spann collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane...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...Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root photo. Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture |  | | 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...analysis, I observed both colorless sphemles on quartz with sphalerite, as well as purplish-red microcrystalline |  | | Journal (issue) | | Trinchillo Sapat Gali, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan ................................. 747 COVER: AQUAMARINE with microcline and quartz (nicknamed the âKing of Kashmirâ), 80 cm, from...from the Biangsapi Gon mine near Nyet Bruk, Pakistan. Private collection; James Elliott photo, Fine Minerals...FineMineral.com Aquamarine & Quartz | Nyet-Bruk, Skardu District, Pakistan | 15 cm orders@crystalclassics...CRYSTALCLASSICS.CO.UK MALKHAN Tourmaline with Quartz and Cleavelandite | Malkhan Pegmatite Field, Russia |  | | Journal (issue) | | Calcite-Kevin & Mark Brown collection, page 52; Smoky quartz gwindel-Brent Lockhart collection, page 175; Aquamarine-Wally...unearthing many fine specimens of gadolinite, smoky quartz, fluorite, feldspar in crystals to five feet across...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...Streeter, R. L. Parker found a piece of "heavy quartz" in a stream bed. lt proved to be topaz from a...medium-violet arnethyst crystal specimens from quartz veins. And textbook-sharp, colorless and transparent |  | | Journal (issue) | | Magdalensburg (Carinthia, Austria), where a series of quartz crystals were found at a settlement that can be...(Lombardy, northem Italy), a transparent and perfect quartz crystaldoubly terminated and about 2.5 cm in diameter-was...foothills of the Lombardy Alps (Pezzotta, 1999), where quartz occurs in a deposit very similar to that of the...the Sicilian sulfur deposits; so-called "fenster quartz" of Porretta Terme; gypsum and other minerals of...platform in the Fassa Valley and the Siusi Alp; druses of orthoclase and quartz with associated minerals |  | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Record, volume 37, NovemberâDecember, 2006 511 QUARTZ, 5.5 cm, Dalnegorsk, Russia. Jeff Scovil photo... Famous Mineral Localities Alchuri Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals...near the small village of Alchuri in the Shigar Valley, Pakistan, have produced attractive specimens of |  | | 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...issue features a pegmatite mineral, tourmaline on quartz, in keeping with Tucson's Big and Beautiful pegmatite...âą Markus Raschke - The South Platte Pegmatite District of Colorado: New Insights into Mineralogy, Petrogenesis |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in minerals was sparked when as a child he found quartz crystals while camping with his parents in Valle...crystal, Haramosh Mountains above Dassu, Gilgit-Balistan, Pakistan. James Elliott photo. Dr. Peter Tarassoff...Haramosh Mountains above Dassu, Shigar River Valley, Gilgit-Balistan, Pakistan, and a 19.5-cm-tall beryl...beryl on albite and muscovite, also from the Shigar River Valley. The latter has been described as âamong...from the Himalaya mine, California; an 11cm smoky quartz gwindel from Puiva Mountain, Saranpaul, Tyumen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of muscovite with quartz, 6.8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County...across, and are associated with beryl, albite, and quartz. Plumose muscovite has been found at the Smith...minerals include beryl, albite, fluorapatite, and quartz. In nearby New Hampshire, the Chandler quarry,...minerals include albite, fluorapatite, beryl, and quartz, to name but a few. Also in Grafton County is the...rosettes, associated with fluorapatite, albite, and quartz have come from here. The Strickland quarry, Portland |  | | Catalog/List | | WINTER 2021 4461_txt.indd 5 5 1/18/21 11:02 AM Quartz and Hematite Jinlong Iron Mine, Longchuan, Guangdong... 4461_txt.indd 8 1/18/21 11:02 AM Malachite on Quartz with Shattuckite Omaue Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene... Aquamarine with Schorl and Quartz Shengus, Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan 7.6 cm tall x 15.2 cm...surrounded by lustrous black tourmalines and clear quartz crystals. It is rare to have these three species...14 1/18/21 11:02 AM Rubellite Tourmaline on Quartz Malkhan Pegmatite Field, Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gold in the Bagrote and Dainter streams, northern Pakistan: Implications for provenance and exploration Masroor...2016YFC0600106 The Bagrote and Dainter valleys in Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan, belonging to the Kohistan island arc...through glacier to the fluvial system. The Gilgit Baltistan province, dominated by dry temperate climate...glacioâfluvial, microtexture and chemistry, North Pakistan, placer gold, provenance Geological Journal....gold grains and their Bagrote streams, Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan, with a view to trace the inclusions |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada for two summers, subleasing the Royal Peacock...lustrous, prismatic crystals of epidote, excellent quartz, idiomorphic albite, tourmaline, morganite and...principal city of the entire Jequitinhonha River valley (COMIG-Projeto Espinhaço, 2002). Eucalyptus trees...eluvium has a matrix of fine to medium-grained quartz and ferruginous soil. Above, there is a colluvium...fine sandy clay matrix, with sparse fragments of quartz and ferruginous pisolites. The thickness of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | interest by giving him two specimens of gold in quartz from the Eungella mine in Queensland, and later...up in Lockenhaus, a town in the Oberpullendorf District of Burgenland, Austria. He immigrated to Australia...encountered them, including calcite, fluorite, pyrite and quartz. He began to concentrate his efforts evermore on...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 |  | | Report (chapter) | | Chalt green schist zone 5. Basic intrusives zone 6. Gilgit zone D. References 255 263 264 264 264 264 265...carbonate, 10%; sedimentary rocks with over 95% quartz, 50 4- 10%. 10s Due to lack of information, the...the western Hindu Kush. In the western Karakorum, Gilgit Agency, the basement is represented by Pre-Cambrian...account of some fossils collected in the Shaksgam valley and Aghil range (Desio 1936). The lower formations...north of the axial batholith (Baltoro basin, Hunza valley). In the eastern Karakorum the normal sedimentary |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | cm tall Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza-Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Brent Lockhart collection, Jeff Scovil...PAGE 86 Apatite Valleys: Localities of Northern Pakistan BY DUDLEY BLAUWET PAGE 96 Apatite from Nuristan...apatite structure is complex and contains three district sites on which the cations sit. The calcium and...aesthetic crystalsoften found on a microcline or quartz matrix. Samples are found in cavities in the Sapo...5.6 cm tall Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan John Rakovan collection |  | PALIN, R. M., SEARLE, M. P., WATERS, D. J., HORSTWOOD, M. S. A., PARRISH, R.R. (2012) Combined thermobarometry and geochronology of peraluminous metapelites from the Karakoram metamorphic complex, North Pakistan; New insight into the tectonothermal evolution of the Baltoro and Hunza Valley regions. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 30 (8) 793-820 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2012.00999.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | North Pakistan; New insight into the tectonothermal evolution of the Baltoro and Hunza Valley regions...regions of the Karakoram metamorphic complex, North Pakistan, has produced new insights into the PâTât evolution...events in the tectonothermal evolution of the Hunza Valley have been documented; an andalusite-grade contact...magmatic over-accretion. Key words: Baltoro; Hunza Valley; Karakoram metamorphic complex; MnNCKFMASHTO; pseudosection...particular, some metapelitic units of the Hunza Valley retain a record of extended prograde metamorphism |
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Dassu, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan