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Corundum from Turkestan

Afghanistan
 
  • Badakhshan
    • Ishkashim District
[var. Ruby] Orris, G.J., Bliss, J.D. (2002) Mine and mineral occurrences of Afghanistan. Open-File Report 2002-110. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr02110
    • Yamgan District
[var. Sapphire] Moore, T.P.,Woodside, R.M.W. (2014): The Sar-e-Sang Lapis Mines, Kuran Wa Munjan district, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. Mineralogical Record 45 (3), 280-336.
China
 
  • Xinjiang
    • Akesu Prefecture (Aksu Prefecture; Aqsu Prefecture)
      • Baicheng Co. (Bay Co.)
[var. Ruby] Yanling Tang (2005): Non-metallic deposits of Xinjiang, China [Zhongguo Xinjiang Fei Jinshu Kuangchuang]. Geological Publishing House (Beijing), 289 pp.
    • Bayin'gholin Autonomous Prefecture (Bayingolin Autonomous Prefecture; Bayinguoleng Autonomous Prefecture)
      • Lopnur Co. (Yuli Co.; Weili Co.)
Yanling Tang (2005): Non-metallic deposits of Xinjiang, China [Zhongguo Xinjiang Fei Jinshu Kuangchuang]. Geological Publishing House (Beijing), 289 pp.
    • Kezilesu Autonomous Prefecture (Kizilsu Autonomous Prefecture; Qizilsu Autonomous Prefecture)
      • Aketao Co. (Akto Co.; Aqto Co.)
        • Subashi (Subashen)
[var. Sapphire] Yanling Tang (2005): Non-metallic deposits of Xinjiang, China [Zhongguo Xinjiang Fei Jinshu Kuangchuang]. Geological Publishing House (Beijing), 289 pp.
    • Yili Hasake Autonomous Prefecture (Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture)
      • Aletai Prefecture (Altay Prefecture)
        • Fuyun Co. (Koktokay Co.)
wrgis.wr.usgs.gov (2004) http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of03-220/DATABASE/lode_deposits.txt
Kyrgyzstan
 
  • Issyk-Kul Region
  • Naryn Region
[var. Sapphire] Kievlenko, Eugenii Ya., Soregaroli, A. - Ed. (2003) Geology of Gems - First English Edition. Ocean Pictures Ltd, Littleton, Colorado. p.1-468.
Tajikistan
 
  • Gorno-Badakhshan
    • Murghob
[var. Ruby] Litvinenko A.K., Barnov N.G. (2010): The history of Pamirs gemstones. Izvestiya Visshikh Uchebnykh Zavedeniy, Geologiya Razvedka (Proceedings of Higher Educational Institutions, Geology and Prospecting), No. 4, 70–74 (in Russian).
Kievlenko, Eugenii Ya., Soregaroli, A. - Ed. (2003) Geology of Gems - First English Edition. Ocean Pictures Ltd, Littleton, Colorado. p.1-468.
      • Rangkul
[var. Ruby] Elena S. Sorokina, Andrey K. Litvinenko, Wolfgang Hofmeister, Tobias Häger, Dorrit E. Jacob, and Zamoniddin Z. Nasriddinov (2015): Rubies and sapphires from Snezhnoe, Tajikistan. Gems & Gemology 51, 160-175.
[var. Ruby] Hofmeister, W. (2020) Petrogenesis of the Snezhnoe Ruby Deposit, Central Pamir. Minerals 10, 478.
Elena S. Sorokina, Andrey K. Litvinenko, Wolfgang Hofmeister, Tobias Häger, Dorrit E. Jacob, and Zamoniddin Z. Nasriddinov (2015): Rubies and sapphires from Snezhnoe, Tajikistan. Gems & Gemology 51, 160-175.
Sorokina E.S., Ozhogina E.G., Jacob D.E., Hofmeister W. (2012): Some features of corundum ontogeny and the quality of ruby from Snezhnoe deposit, Tajikistan (the Eastern Pamirs). Zapiski RMO (Proceedings of the Russian Mineralogical Society), 141 (6), 100–108 (in Russian).
Kievlenko, Eugenii Ya., Soregaroli, A. - Ed. (2003) Geology of Gems - First English Edition. Ocean Pictures Ltd, Littleton, Colorado. p.1-468.
Litvinenko, A.K.
Sorokina, E.S.
Häger, T.
Kostitsyn, Y.A.
Botcharnikov, R.E.
Somsikova, A.V.
[var. Ruby] Smith, C.P. (1998): Rubies and pink sapphires from the Pamir Mountain Range in Tajikistan, former USSR. Journal of Gemmology, 26, 103-109.
Kievlenko, Eugenii Ya., Soregaroli, A. - Ed. (2003) Geology of Gems - First English Edition. Ocean Pictures Ltd, Littleton, Colorado. p.1-468.
[var. Ruby] Kievlenko, Eugenii Ya., Soregaroli, A. - Ed. (2003) Geology of Gems - First English Edition. Ocean Pictures Ltd, Littleton, Colorado. p.1-468.
    • Pyandzh River Valley
Grew, Edward S., Pertsev, Nikolai N., Vrána, Stanislav, Yates, Martin G., Shearer, Charles K., Wiedenbeck, Michael (1998) Kornerupine parageneses in whiteschists and other magnesian rocks: is kornerupine + talc a high-pressure assemblage equivalent to tourmaline + orthoamphibole?. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 131 (1) 22-38 doi:10.1007/s004100050376
Levitskii V.I.,e.a. (1990) Peculiarities of mineralogy and petrology of metasomatites with cordierite and cornerupine, - Mineralogicheskii Zhurnal, 12(5), p.58-68 (in Russian)
[var. Ruby] Pavel.M. Kartashov (n.d.) analytical data.
Grew, Edward S., Pertsev, Nikolai N., Vrána, Stanislav, Yates, Martin G., Shearer, Charles K., Wiedenbeck, Michael (1998) Kornerupine parageneses in whiteschists and other magnesian rocks: is kornerupine + talc a high-pressure assemblage equivalent to tourmaline + orthoamphibole?. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 131 (1) 22-38 doi:10.1007/s004100050376
    • Shughnon
      • Shakhdara Range
Kievlenko, Eugenii Ya., Soregaroli, A. - Ed. (2003) Geology of Gems - First English Edition. Ocean Pictures Ltd, Littleton, Colorado. p.1-468.
Uzbekistan
 
  • Navoiy
    • Bukantau Mountains
Golovko, A.V., Kaminsky, F.V. (2010) The Shoshonite-Absarokite-Picrite Karashoho Pipe, Uzbekistan: An Unusual Diamond Deposit in an Atypical Tectonic Environment. Economic Geology, 105, 825-840.
 
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