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Dolomite from
Mine #3, Mingora emerald deposit, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan


Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mine #3, Mingora emerald deposit, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:614590
Long-form Identifier:1:3:614590:3
GUID (UUID V4):130a30cf-7973-49cf-9f13-b6ee29895e1f
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
0.1km (0.1 miles) ā“˜Mingora emerald deposit, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
0.3km (0.2 miles) ā“˜Islamia trench, Mingora emerald deposit, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
0.4km (0.2 miles) ā“˜Mine #2, Mingora emerald deposit, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
0.5km (0.3 miles) ā“˜Farooq mine, Mingora emerald deposit, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
4.0km (2.5 miles) ā“˜Saidu Sharif, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
20.5km (12.8 miles) ā“˜Gujar Killi Emerald Deposit, Shangla District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
49.2km (30.6 miles) ā“˜Ghundao hill, Katlang, Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
82.2km (51.1 miles) ā“˜Tarbela dam, Swabi District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
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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...19.6 cm high Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan P hoto by Jeff Scovil Collection
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Cr-bearing tourmaline associated with emerald deposits from Swat, NW Pakistan: Genesis and its exploration significance...Geology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana...University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, U.S.A. 3 Camborne School of Mines, The University of Exeter...lithosphere along the Main Mantle Thrust in the Swat Valley host emerald deposits and are invaded by quartz veins...associated with emerald and/or chromian muscovite. Tourmalines from the Mingora and Gujar Kili emerald mines and
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of emeralds and their host rocks from Swat, northwestern Pakistan: a stable-isotope investigation M. Arif...1995/Accepted: 3 January 1996 Abstract. Emerald deposits in Swat, northwestern Pakistan, occurring in...samples) and tourmaline (two samples) from the Mingora emerald mines. The oxygen isotopic composition (&180...n = 7). Each of the two components of water in emerald (channel and inclusion) has a different range of...7). The mean 6D of channel waters measured from emerald ( - 4 2 +_ 6.6~/oo SMOW) and that of fluid calculated
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EconomicGeology Vol. 81, 1986, pp. 2022-2028 MINGORA EMERALD DEPOSITS (PAKISTAN): SUTURE-ASSOCIATEDGEM MINERALIZATION... KAZMI, GeologicalSurveyof Pakistan,42-R, Block6, PECHS,Karachi, Pakistan R. D. LAWRENCE, Geologā€¢tDepartment...Oregon97331 j. ANWAR, GemstoneCorporationof Pakistan,Peshawar,Pakistan L. W. SNEE,* GeologyDepartment,OregonState...AND S. HUSSAIN GemstoneCorporationof Pakistan,Peshawar,Pakistan Introduction The Indian subcontinentsequence...Mingoraemeralddepositsare locatedat the northernedge of Mingora,SwatDistrict, about 130 milesnortheastof Peshawar(Fig
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our way through the competĀ­ itive minefield of emerald science, much of John's contribuĀ­ tion to this...any other opinion. extraLapis English No. 2: Emerald The Most Valuable Beryl The Most Precious Gemstone...we ā€¢ pay tribute to John Sinkankas to whom this emerald issue is dedicated. John Sinkankas wrote more...than 15 books including his 1981 definitive work Emerald and Other Beryls. He set standards for authors...Gloria & Gunther A 2001 Find of top-quality emerald crystals from La Pita at Maripi, Boyac
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minerals Review Emerald Deposits: A Review and Enhanced Classification Gaston Giuliani 1, *, Lee A....Groat 2 , Dan Marshall 3 , Anthony E. Fallick 4 and Yannick Branquet 5 1 2 3 4 5 * UniversitƩ Paul...Correspondence: giuliani@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr; Tel.: +33-3-83594238 Received: 12 January 2019; Accepted: 9 February...February 2019   Abstract: Although emerald deposits are relatively rare, they can be formed...systems and models currently used to describe emerald precipitation and predict its occurrence are too
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49.5.1189 Al-RICH CHROMIUM-DRAVITE FROM THE #1 MINE, BALMAT, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK Marian V...talc ā€“ tremolite ā€“ cummingtonite schist at the #1 mine at Balmat in the Adirondack Lowlands, St. Lawrence...lā€™assemblage talc ā€“ trĆ©molite ā€“ cummingtonite Ć  la mine #1 Ć  Balmat, Basse-Terres des Adirondack, comtĆ©...from the chromite deposits of Nausahi, Keonjhar District, Orissa, India (proposal approved, IMA#2009ā€“088)...cummingtonite schists from the #1 mine (American 1190 the canadian mineralogist mine), St. Lawrence County,
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Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03928-076-6 (Pbk) ISBN 978-3-03928-077-3 (PDF) Cover image courtesy of...Marshall, Anthony E. Fallick and Yannick Branquet Emerald Deposits: A Review and Enhanced Classiļ¬cation Reprinted...Alluvial Sapphires from the Orosmayo Region, Jujuy Province, Northwest Argentina: Insights into Their Origin...Cenozoic Alkaline Basalts of the Ratanakiri Volcanic Province (Cambodia), Southeast Asiaā€”Trace Element Geochemistry...Stefanos Karampelas 2 , Vasilios Melfos 3 and Ian Graham 4 1 2 3 4 * Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment
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NOSTRAND REINHOLD BOOK SAUSALITO PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1111 For Reference Not to be taken from this room...0-442-20833-2 I. Title. 553.8 '03 '21 86-26759 3 2 inspira- consider myself fortunate whom Edge...GEM SECTION 1 2 GEMSTONES FROM THE LABORATORY 3 4 / History Crystal Structures and Properties ... durable, and beautiful gems. Synthetic ruby, emerald, and sapphire have become important marketplace...perfection can be a real liability in the case of emerald and gems. That origin of a is, corundum small
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rare-earth species found as small crystals in drusy dolomite-lined cavities. The extremely rare yttrium silicate-carbonate...transparent, tabular microcrystals on matrix of white dolomite, and rarely as doubly terminated crystals to I...MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage
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gemstones. Cover illustration: A ruby, sapphire, emerald, citrine and diamond clip, mounted by Cartier,...in the major gemstones Photographing inclusions 1 3 10 16 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 The nature...crystals Gem crystals 18 19 19 20 20 21 22 32 33 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 Gem testing Hardness Gemstones and light...Director, British Geological Survey. Plates 2 and 3 Courtesy Sothebyā€™s. Plate 16 Photograph courtesy Gemological...rarer. For example, the red and green of ruby and emerald require a source of chromium; without it the corundum
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discredited, a variety, etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co...sequence. Similarly, five book-format issues (8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon...paginated in regular sequence. VOLUMES I-25 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1-34 1--48...of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON, STIG G. Hru...Hrudeposit, Sweden 3:38-39 Notes on recent underground collecting at L.\ngban
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Diamond Coloured by H4 Centres | A Quartz ā€˜SoudĆ© Emeraldā€™ | Synthetic Rock Crystal Clusters on the Chinese...50% of customers ask about lab-grown diamonds; and (3) 8% of the 1,027 jewellery consumers surveyed had...market, (2) creating shared value in the future and (3) ā€˜Telling the Real Diamond Storyā€™. A closing statement...encountered as faceted stones; its low hardness (Mohs 3ā€“3Ā½), perfect cleavage and brittleness make it difficult...reported by Lane (2007). Visible-range spectra (Figure 3) were collected for each polarisation direction corresponding
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ABBOT PUBLIC LIBRARY Pert 3 3011 00004 458 4 COLOR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GEMSTONES Joel E. Arem.Ph.D, FGA...so-called precious stones were diamond, ruby, emerald, sapphire, pearl, and occasionally opal. The dictionary...the statement that diamond, tuby, sapphire, and emerald are gems. Opal is a gem. So are jade, lapis, garnets...example, glass used as a substitute for ruby or emerald). SCOPE OF THIS BOOK Unlike other books about...on display, but rather are held in private safe deposit boxes. There are probably a number of mineral species
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EMERALD and OTHER BERYLS by JOHN SINKANKAS This is Beryls jewelers, gists, geologists, earth ...sciences, yet eminently facet and widely a Emerald historians, gemological Sinkankas, the permanent...metal beryllium. with Beginning author traces emeraldā€”from its less ite, role of historyā€™s pendix...Unmatched third is knowledge from author one emerald cutting and of exotic composition, physical...mineralogical once events. languages for beryl emerald logical to and part, Sinkankas explores and
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resourcesā€”Asia. 2. Mines and mineral resourcesā€”Australia. 3. Mines and mineral resourcesā€”Soviet Union. II. Title...notable example in this category is the Nuristan District of Afghanistan, which over the past 10 years has...Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Iyo Province, Ehime Prefecture, Island of Shikoku Ashio Mine, Shimotsuke Province, Tochigi...Arakawa Mines, Ugo Province, Akita Prefecture, Honshu The Obira Mine, Bungo Province, Oita Prefecture,... Kyushu; The Toroku Mine, Hyuga Province, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu Otome Mine, Suisho Pass, Kurobera
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extraLapis English No. 3: Tourmaline Publisher Lapis International, LLC; East Hampton, CT Concept &...Edition Ā© Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany ISBN 3- 921656- 31 - 1 Acknowledgements The extraLapis...the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993 extraLapis English No. 3 Tourmaline...ran very close to known Afghan tourmaline sources. 3 Tourmaline - History in Brief Author and historian...gemstone since at least the mid to late 1300s (see page 3), it was not until its early eighteenth century arrival
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Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, ā€œFamous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,ā€ in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government
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acknowl- Hill zinc deposit: longest crystal is 9 mm. Frontispiece: Azurite, Burra copper mine; 5 mm crystal...minerals came from Johannes Menge who was appointed Mine and Quarry Agent to the South Australian Company...Ranges, the northern Flinders Ranges, and the Olary Province. This concentration within the areas of only five...Tony Turner. NORTHERN TERRITORY NORTH WEST PROVINCE RALIA CENTRAL NORTH fie Eyre \N roa WESTERN...STUART > Gy WALES. ea Lake Gairdner OLARY PROVINCE [5 [2 EYRE PENINSULA REE NEW RSE INGE PENINSULA
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3303-33rd Street N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7 A deposit copy of this publication is also available for...Aussi;disponible en franc;ais CONTENTS vii 1 1 3 Abstract Introduction A brief geological history...37 37 39 39 40 41 Walker Mine Buckingham galena occurrence Dominion Mine Road-cuts on Val-des-Monts...road Haycock Mine Sabourin property Rainv ille (Dugas) Mine Wallingford Mine Jackson Rae Mine Blackburn...Blackburn Mine Bell graphite mine Feldspar quarry Peerless (Diamond) Mine Road-cut Cadieux quartzite quarry Emerald
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l ong the route Section 1: 3 Buckingham - Mont-Lauri e r Walker Mine ... . ... . ... . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dominion Mine . .. . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...-T empleton road . . ... . .... ... . ... Haycock Mine . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . ..... . . . . ...Rainville (Dugas) Mine .... . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . ... .. ...... . Wallingford Mine ..... .. ....Rae Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . .... Blackburn Mine . .
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Nostrand Reinhold Ltd. 15 14 13 12 II 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data...so-called precious stones were diamond, ruby, emerald, sapphire, pearl, and occasionally opal. The dictionary...the statement that diamond, ruby, sapphire, and emerald are gems. Opal is a gem. So are jade, lapis, garnets...example. glass used as a substuute for rub) or emerald). refractn e index , s \\a, elength in format...d1spla). but rather are held in pn\.'ate safe deposit boxes There are probabl) a number of mineral species
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2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia, H Page 3: Liddicoatite, polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina, Madagaskar...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...written penni,,ion of the publi,her. ISBN 80-7296-039-3 CONTENTS Preface .................................example: tetrahedrite Cu 12[S(SbS 3).d Cu-rich freibergite (Ag,Cu) 12[S(SbS 3)4] Ag-rich tetrahedrite [Cu...in square brackets, e.g. fluorapatite Ca[Fl(PO 4)3] or euchroite 0.1 2[OHIAsO 4]ā€¢3H 2O. This procedure
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Catherine St. West or through your bookseller. A deposit copy of this publication is a~so available for... Page ā€¢ INTRODUCTION 2 ā€¢ A note on Canadian gems 3 ā€¢ Becoming acquainted with minerals 4 ā€¢ Where to look...occurrence is followed by a brief description of the deposit together with precise location and how to reach...in a number of cities and towns in nearly every province. Becoming Acquainted with Minerals Although it...Appendix II. 3 Where to Look Quarries, mine workings (pits, trenches, etc.), and mine clumps are usually
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P. J. Dunn Famous mineral localities: The Mezica mine, Slovenia, Yugoslavia ............................089-4488711 Minerals from the Alps, N orw ay, Pakistanā€”Appt. O nly Kristallkeller-N tim ber U lrike...the type specimen or specimens and descriptions. 3. The correct definition of the mineral being discredited...ISSUES! v.15/#5 Jacupiranga mine (BraĀ­ zil), Jensen quarry (CA), Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $7 v.15/#6...Steamboat, Majuba Hill, White Caps $7 v.1 6 /# 2 v.16/#3 Colorado-Ill Issue! Leadville, Rico, Cresson Vug
 
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