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Forsterite from Hindukush Himalayan Region, Asia

Afghanistan
 
  • Badakhshan
    • Kuran Wa Munjan District
John Attard (2014) Private Communication
RWMW Collection
Woolley, Alan R. (2019) Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World. Part 4: Antarctica, Asia and Europe (excluding the former USSR), Australasia and Oceanic Islands. The Geological Society of London. doi:10.1144/mpar4
Mountain Minerals specimen, Richard Dale Collection
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
 
  • Qinghai
    • Hainan
      • Xinghai County
Jianhui Wu, Chengyou Feng, Dequan Zhang, Jinwen Li, and Hongquan She (2010): Mineral Deposits 29(5), 760-774
    • Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
      • Golmud City (Ge'ermu Co.)
Miao Yu, Chengyou Feng, Guangying Bao, Hongchuan Liu, Yiming Zhao, Daxin Li, Ye Xiao, and Jiannan Liu (2013): Mineral Deposits 32(1), 55-76
      • Mangnai City (Mangya Co.)
        • Lenghu Co.
Qian, Bing, Li, Wenyuan, Zhang, Zhaowei, Sui, Qinglin, Shao, Ji, Feng, Yantong (2023) Geochronology, geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotope compositions of the Niubiziliang mafic-ultramafic complex in the South Altyn orogen, NW China: Implications for Ni-Cu mineralization and tectonic setting. Ore Geology Reviews, 158. 105467 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2023.105467
Huiwen Liu, Xueping Wang, Ji Shao, Kesi Lu, Fanglian Tian, and Shuya Xiong (2014): Mineral Deposits 33(1), 87-103
  • Shaanxi
    • Hanzhong
      • Ningqiang County
Xin, H., Eisenhour, D.D., and Buseck, P.R. (1995): Meteoritics 30(1), 106-109
Xiyue Wang, Huimin Zhang, Sichao Wang, and Yuezhen Wu (1987): Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica 6(4), 296-306
  • Tibet
    • Ngari
      • Gê'gyai Co. (Geji Co.)
Chao, N., Chen, X., Wu, J., Wang, X., Lin, Y., Lin, D., ... & Zheng, Y. (2022). Age and compositions of garnet in a magnesian skarn Au-Cu deposit, Tibet, implications for ore-fluid evolution. Ore Geology Reviews, 105248.
Zhi Zhang, Yuchuan Chen, Juxing Tang, Lin He, Xiaofeng Yao, Yi Yang, Zhenghua Hu, Hongxing Wang, and Junlong Song (2013): Mineral Deposits 32(5), 915-931
      • Gêrzê Co.
Bao Peisheng, Xiao Xuchang, Su Li, and Wang Jun (2007): Science in China, Series D (Earth Sciences), 50(5), 660-671.
    • Nyingtri Prefecture (Linzhi Prefecture)
      • Bomi Co.
Zhang, Boyang, Zoheir, Basem, Zhang, Chenjie, Mu, Xiaoping, Xu, Xiangzhen, Qiu, Tian, Xiong, Fahui (2023) Coexisting High-Al and High-Cr Chromitites in the Dingqing Ophiolite (SE Tibet): Inferences to Compositional Heterogeneity in the Tethyan Upper Mantle. Minerals, 13 (9) doi:10.3390/min13091234
    • Shannan Prefecture (Lhokha Prefecture; Lhoka Prefecture)
      • Qusum Co. (Qusong Co.)
Bai, W.J., Fang, Q.S., Zhang, Z.M., et al. (2001): Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica 20(1), 1-9.
    • Xigazê Prefecture (Rikaze Prefecture; Shigatse Prefecture)
      • Tingri Co. (Dingri Co.)
Chen, Xueqian, Lifei Zhang, Guibin Zhang, and Zeng Lü. (2022) "The Calcite-Dolomite Solvus Temperature and T-X(CO2) Evolution in High-Grade Impure Marble from Thongmön Area, Central Himalaya: Implications for Carbon Cycling in Orogenic Belts" Minerals 12, no. 6: 724. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12060724
Myanmar
 
  • Mandalay Region
    • Pyin-Oo-Lwin District
      • Mogok Township
        • Mogok Valley
Lin, Bihan, Xingtong Li, Longbo Zhang, Xiaojing Lai, and Qian Zhang. (2023) "Gemological and Luminescence Characteristics of Taaffeites from Mogok, Myanmar" Minerals 13, no. 3: 346. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13030346
Pakistan
 
  • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province
    • Mansehra District
      • Kaghan Valley
gemexplorer.org (2012) http://gemexplorer.org/archives/pakistan-peridot
Jan, M. Q., & Khan, M. A. (1996). Petrology of gem peridot from Sapat mafic-ultramafic complex, Kohistan, NW Himalaya. Geological Bulletin, University of Peshawar, 29, 17-26.
    • North Waziristan District
Econ Geol (1985) 80:294-306
 
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