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Andradite from
Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan


Locality type:Valley
Classification
Species:Andradite
Formula:Ca3Fe23+(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Andradite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:792175
Long-form Identifier:1:3:792175:9
GUID (UUID V4):852d953b-e1b8-4e05-a8a6-9714d4fee528
References
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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...other things, credited with promoting research on andradite gamet (the dematoid variety) from the abandoned
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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)
cleavelandite) crystals from the Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Colorless, transparent topaz...microcline, 5.5 cm, from the Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Trinity Minerals specimen and...busy website specializing in quartz varieties, Pakistan/Afghanistan minerals, and some jewelry on the...Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Colorado Gem & Mineral Company specimen and photo...Epidote, 6.25 cm, from near Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan. Colorado Gem & Mineral Company specimen and photo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens is from the Dattaw mine, Mogok, Pyin-Oo-Lwin district, Mandalay Division. It consists of green crystals...in marble from the Koksha Valley, Badakhshan Province. In neighboring Pakistan very fine crystals of diopside...from Alchuri (sometimes spelled Alchori), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals in the collection are dark...between Alchuri and Shigar at Hashupa (sometimes spelled Hashupi), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals in...found at Khapalu (also spelled Khaplu), Ghangche district. Other Pakistani localities that have produced
Journal (issue)
scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...operations in Mexico, especially the mining of black andradite garnets. Tom dealt prirnarily in wholesale minerals... 15 cm, from the Wagholi quarry complex, Pune District, Maharashtra, India. Don and Laura Aaron photo...photo. Spodumene, 9.5 cm, from Resplendor, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Don and Laura Aaron photo...cm, from Raikot, Chilas, Diamar District, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Don and Laura Aaron photo. Celestine
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31. Elbaite, 9.2 cm, from the Barra do Salinas District, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Will Johnson...scepter crystal, 7.5 cm, from the Barra do Salinas District, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Will Johnson... Figure 47. Elbaite, 4.9 cm, from the Jenipapo District, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This crystal shows...scepter crystal, 8.8 cm, from the Barra do Salinas District, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Will Johnson...Elbaite crystal, 7.4 cm, from the Barra do Salinas District, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Will Johnson
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;
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Tucson, AZ 85705 in the center of the Mineral District. The mineralogy section of the mim today hosts...Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania. 14.5 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm...Lolu Dahku mine, Roundu Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. 14.5 x 3 x 2 cm, mim specimen...Urandu mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan, 4.5 x 2 x 1...so far in the Swiss Alps. James Elliott photo Andradite (variety demantoid), Ambanja, Diana, Antsiranana
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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
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graders at the Copper Creek Elementary School in Oro Valley, spearheaded a campaign in 2014 to propose exactly...to my Representative, Mark Finchem (R-District 11, Oro Valley), asking him to be the primary sponsor... Mark Candee Gold, 2.3 cm, from the Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Ken Donn photo. Wulfenite...(hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected in 1958;... 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken Donn photo. Cerussite
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(Continues on page 2) Part II: A Difficult Trip to Pakistan Dudley Blauwet PO Box 302 Louisville, Colorado...near the major brookite deposit in the Kharan district in Baluchistan. It took hard bargaining to produce...www.mzexpos.com August 2006 Mineral News 3 Pakistan Mineral Trip (Continued from page I) Our Badakhshan...an hour's walk from the lapis mine in the Kokcha Valley of Badakhshan Province. The lot included some matrix...dealers whom I have known from my first trip to Pakistan appeared with 6-8 boxes in tow. I remember him
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...5.6 cm tall Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit­ Baltistan, Pakistan John Rakovan collection...light) 8.6 cm tall Bulache, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Jonathan Allred col lection, Joe
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as untreated • Cat’s-eye demantoid and brown andradite with horsetail inclusions • Unusual orange py...transparency • Buccellati design award • Aquamarine from Pakistan • Phenakite from the Urals • Freshwater pearls... In addition to aquamarine from Pakistan’s Shigar Valley and natural freshwater pearls from Texas, our...high-strain domain of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero district (figure 4) in the southern part of the São Francisco...hematite surface (figure 8C), revealing a ridge-and-valley structure at the nanometer scale along three directions
Report (issue)
helmet-clad bad guy in the series. This 3.3 cm tall andradite on hematite is from the Wessels Mine near Hotazel...the color of some 50 percent of the green gem andradite (variety "demantoid") originating in Russia is...Inclusions BY MICKEY E. GUNTER 34 Classic Garnets: Andradite BY JOACHIM ZANG 38 Above: Childeric 's bees...Spessartine from Tongbei BY BERTOLD OTTENS 70 Pakistan and Afghanistan: Garnet from the Roof of the World...members). Of these fifteen species, six almandine, andradite, grossular, pyrope, spessartine, and uvarovite-are
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(4) Cerussite, Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba...West mine, Congo Republic. (7) Sodalite, Kokcha Valley, Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia...thumbnail mineral specimens” published in the Antelope Valley (California) Gem and Mineral Club bulletin, mentioned...cm, from the Eagle’s Nest mine, Michigan Bluff District, Placer County, California. Jingnan Zhang collection...Bustamite, 2.7 cm, from the North mine, Broken Hill District, New South Wales, Australia. Stretch Young collection
Journal (issue)
where ores from the various mines of tbe Silver District were treated. The now-famous Red Cloud rnine was...and 1889 he shipped 5,000 specimens of Silver District vanadinite back to Philadelphia. Around 1910 an...including the Flux mine, the Mammoth mine, tbe Silver District mines (including the Red Cloud), and mines in...Gold, 3.3 and 6.8 cm, from the Santa Elena River district, Bolivar Province, Venezuela. Ex Hubert de Monmonier...6.5 cm, from the Morenci mine, Copper Mountain district, Greenlee County, Arizona. Dale Armstrong photo
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driver to let him know that I wanted to leave for Shigar the following morning and that I did not have time...and to travel all of the way to Nyet in the Shigar Valley. I then walked to another shop and talked to...The second lot opened was of some gemmy town of Shigar, with minimal traffic as the end of the tourist...holy day. There was a new road currently Braldu Valley. Both of these were put on hold and I returned...returned to the being built through the village of Shigar, which bypassed the hotel to find several other dealers
Journal (issue)
Aquamarine beryl, 10.5 cm, Braldu Valley, Skardu, Northem Areas, Pakistan ; Marc Countiss collection; Joe...COLLECTION Schort on albite, 15 cm, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Joe Budd photo. Elbaite, 14.5 cm, Pederneira...photo. Mesolite with apophyllite, 14 cm, Pune district, Maharashtra, India. Joe Budd photo. Apophyllite...Apophyllite on stilbite, 9.5 cm, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, lndia. Joe Budd photo. Arsenopyrite with quartz...stibnite, 8.5 cm, Xionghuang Kuang mine, Wuyu district, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Ex Steve
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vesuvianite locales, with a half-dozen in the Aosta Valley, over a dozen in the Piedmont, and four in Lombardy...crystals to about 1 cm long with calcite from Warsak, Pakistan. green (chromian) to pale greenish-yellow (ferroan)...wollastonite, and scapolite (Lueth and Jones 2003). Pakistan has become a major source of world-class gem crystals...vesuvianites have been found in serpentinite in the Zhob Valley, Baluchistan. Brown euhedral crystals occur in...in Shalman, near the Khyber Pass on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border (this locale may be referred to as
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 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...article. INTRODUCTION The Raja Bazaar, Rawalpindi, Pakistan: A hot June night, streets teeming and pulsing
Catalog/List
NW Corner of W. Airport Freeway (Hwy. 183) and Valley View Lane FLOOR Sessions 1-2 (Floor, Telephone...NW Corner of W. Airport Freeway (Hwy. 183) and Valley View Lane Monday, December 6 – Tuesday, December...NW Corner of W. Airport Freeway (Hwy. 183) and Valley View Lane Phone: 214-528-3500 877-HERITAGE (437-4824)...72002 Gold Nugget Ganes Creek Mine, Innoko Mining District Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Alaska, USA The dimensionality... 72004 Gold Nugget Ganes Creek Mine, Innoko Mining District Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Alaska, USA This simplistic
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Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...FLUORITE Dal’negorsk Tetyuche, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia It...12:00 PM CT   9 52004 MANGANOCALCITE Pachapaqui District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru It...visit HA.com/5168 52005 TALMESSITE Bou Azer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ
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with apatite, Mount Avie, Bellecombe area, Aosta Valley, Italy ................ ......... ...............Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See the article...Hodrusa-Hamre (in the Banska Stiavnica mining district) is also the type locality for hodrusite. V INTRODUCTION...historical events before 1920, we will use the older district name of Schemnitz in accordance with the literature...time, whereas for events after 1920 the modem district name of Banska Stiavnica will be used, bearing
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Dr. G. Liittig, Erlangen Band 25 GEOL OGY OF PAKISTAN edited by / F. K. Bender and H. A. Raza 1995...BORNTR AEGER · BERLIN · STUTTGART GEOLO GY OF PAKISTAN edited by F .K. Bender and H.A. Raza by D....Developme nt Institute of Pakistan, 230, Nazimuddi n Road F-7 /4, Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr. D. BANNERT, Dr....of Pakistan, FF 2 Block 59, Seaview Township, Defence Housing Authority, Karachi-75500, Pakistan. Prof...University of the Punjab, New Campus, Lahore-54590, Pakistan. Ongoing small scale detachment tectonics within
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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")
 
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