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Calcite from
Ghundao hill, Katlang, Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Topaz4 photos of Calcite associated with Topaz at this locality.
Albite2 photos of Calcite associated with Albite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ghundao hill, Katlang, Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:433125
Long-form Identifier:1:3:433125:4
GUID (UUID V4):a861cfa9-75f8-4974-bf25-516c48a8d744
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
4.0km (2.5 miles) Katlang, Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
5.8km (3.6 miles) Ambela Granite Complex, Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
38.2km (23.7 miles) Koga Nepheline Syenite Intrusion, Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
41.9km (26.0 miles) Sillai Patti Carbonatite, Malakand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
45.4km (28.2 miles) Saidu Sharif, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
48.9km (30.4 miles) Jambil carbonatite complex, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
49.4km (30.7 miles) Mingora emerald deposit, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
49.6km (30.8 miles) Mine #2, Mingora emerald deposit, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
63.5km (39.5 miles) Tarbela dam, Swabi District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
99.0km (61.5 miles) Loe Shilman Carbonatite, Khyber District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
topaz-bearing calcite, quartz, white mica veins from Ghundao Hill (North West Frontier Province, Pakistan): K=...Summary In the area of the Ghundao Hill (Northern Frontier Province, Pakistan) an orangeyellow to cherry-red...cherry-red topaz is found in calcite, quartz, white mica veins crosscutting the schistosity of probably Silurian...mineral textures indicate that the topaz from Ghundao Hill crystallized at temperatures of about 230 ...postmagmatic granite-related fluid. The pink Topaz from Ghundao Hill shares the coexistence with carbonates, low
Journal (issue)
Cornelius Hurlbut, and C. W Fryer Pink Topaz from Pakistan Edward Gubelin, Giorgio Graziani, and A. H. Kuzmi...THE COVER: Recently a small hillock near Katlang, Pakistan, has begun to produce fine gem-quality pink...present an in-depth report on topaz from the Ghundao hill, the only known in-situ deposit of pink topaz...topaz in the world today. The finest-quality Pakistan pink topaz is reminiscent o f the stones shown here...GEMS & GEMOLOGY Fall 1986 139 PINK TOPAZ FROM PAKISTAN By Edward Gubelin, Giorgio Graziani, and A. H
Report (issue)
stones (weighing a total of 2.52 carats) from Katlang, Pakistan, adorn the upper wings, with a matched pair... 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen collection, Scovil photo Top left:...banks of the Basha River in Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Pakistan. Dudley Blauwet photo, June 12, 2006 8 TOPAZ...Germany; Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Pakistan; near Volyndarsk-Volynsky, Ukraine; Kleine...Namibia; Mokrusha­ Mursinka District, Ural Mountains, Russia; Paprok, Laghman Province, Afghanistan; San Diego
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...19.6 cm high Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan P hoto by Jeff Scovil Collection
Journal (issue)
(5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo Republic. (7) Sodalite...window. This case shows his sub-collections of calcite, quartz, pyrite and hematite, one species per shelf...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...spaced and oriented. Figure 29. Emerald crystal in calcite, 2.2 cm, from the Polveros mine, La Pita, Boyacá
Book (volume)
collecting; a Proustite is more important than a Calcite, a Herodsfoot Bournonite is somehow more significant...(with Tourmaline) Gilgit-Baltistan, N. Areas, Pakistan, 15 Golconda Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 32 Panasqueira... 5, 40 Aquamarine (with Emerald) Swat Valley, Pakistan, 22 Azurite (on Malachite) Milpillas Mine, Sonora...China, 54, 55 Bannisterite Zinc Corp Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia, 69 Benitoite Benitoite Gem Mine...Brazilianite Linopolis Dist., Minas Gerais, Brazil, 25 Calcite (with Chalcopyrite) Chenzhong, Hunan Prov., China
Journal (issue)
10.5 cm, Braldu Valley, Skardu, Northem Areas, Pakistan ; Marc Countiss collection; Joe Budd photo. This...Kevin Brown Diane & Keith Brownlee Jim Gibbs Lyda Hill Shelly & Jim Houran Rob Lavinsky Betty Llewellyn...2009 RICHARDSON BEARD COLLECTION Carrollite on calcite, 7 cm, Kamoto Fond, Katanga, Democratic Republic...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
Book
Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP ,_ •a PART OF REED INTERNATIONAL...184 Nigeria 184 Northern Ireland 186 Norway 186 Pakistan 186 People's Republic of China 188 Portugal 189...Occurrences Pink/red - Ouro Preto, Brazil; Katlang, Pakistan; Kamenka river, Siberia. Stable yellow/amber...Brazil, Sri Lanka; Jos plateau, Nigeria; Volyn district, Ukraine, and numerous pegmatites throughout the...the Sanarka river in the southern Urals, Katlang, Pakistan, and a few other localities. Most topaz has
Journal (issue)
accompanying me to remote areas of the world, from Pakistan to Mexico; for encouraging me (as a collector...interest had shifted to minerals from Brazil, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the array of great gern minerals...Talnakhite Fourth Caste (beautiful but common): Calcite Galena Microcline Quartz Smithsonite Fluorite ... Tourmaline ("Blue-cap") Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala District, San Diego County, California 13.2 cm; The specimen...Bricker' s 1990 article, "Arizona' s Silver Mining District," Mineralogical Record, vol. 21, March-April.
Journal (issue)
crystals to 4 cm, on matrix, from Ghundao Hill, Mardan district, Pakistan. F. John Barlow collection; photo...Gaylord's Tennessee Minerals Gellani Enterprises - Pakistan Gem & M inerals of Dallas Gemini Minerals Genady...Enough . . . Inc. Hallelujah Mines Hammad Gems - Pakistan Hampel Mineraiogical Museum Hendricks, Pat M inerals...Runner, Bruce & Jo Russell / Zuhl Saeed Ur Rahman - Pakistan Sandman, The Schlichter, Ernie Minerals Schwarz...- Russia Sunshine M inerals Syed Trading Co. - Pakistan Syntaxis Sunnywood Collection, The Thom pson,
Journal (issue)
(deceased) Peter L. Via (deceased) Salim Edde Lyda Hill Daniel J. Record Rob Lavinsky Wilbert A. Danner...vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected in...of a discussion in late 2007 between Bart and Ray Hill, a collector from Abbotsford, British Columbia....fine rhodochrosite specimens, pink manganese-rich calcite spheres, hematite, and wonderful barite crystals...early lead mines in the Upper Mississippi Valley district (Mineral Point and others). The animal which appears
Journal (issue)
interessanter Neufund von Brookit aus Baluchistan, Pakistan 63-72 Achat Magazin * 49 Posnjakiet, Wolfach..."Hemimorphite and willemite from the Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico" * MINERAUX ET FOSSILES 30(333)...29(11), 11.04 8-11 Harmotom 13-16 Neufunde aus Pakistan und Afghanistan Geonieuws 30(6), juni 2005 FACETTEN...mineralenverzamelingen ter wereld te herbergen). Volgens James Hill, de directeur van de firma NAEM, verbetert deze...je tegenwoordig op elke beurs, van Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibië ... denk bijvoorbeeld maar aan de affiche
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granite from the Hub stock, Horní Slavkov-Krásno ore district, Czech Republic, with aggregates of polysynthetic...in the Hub Jo stock, Horní Slavkov-Krásno ore district, Czech Republic. Topaz occurs as irregular, anhedral...Utah, USA. At Qiguling, in the Qitianling tin district, China, Xie et al. (2013) described topaz in a...650 Heřmanská and Dolejš (2011), metallogenic province of Germany Granite from the Podlesí stock (dike...Jiangxi 24 67-m 13.2 Xie et al. (2019) n.d. Province, China 17 Journal Pre-proof Songshugang topaz
Journal (issue)
They camped for the night at the foot of a small hill but, as they slept, some of their horses broke away...horses, some of which could be seen at the top of the hill. Climbing to the crest, Weaver found the horses...filled with nuggets from "the potato patch." Rich Hill, as it came to be named, ultimately yielded millions...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
Journal (issue)
COVER: Golden Topaz, 3.5 inches, from Katlang, Mardan District, Pakistan; Freilich Collection. OPENING SPREAD:...Collection (left to right): Topaz from Dassu, Pakistan; Amethyst from Guerrero, Mexico; Gold from California;...from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite from...from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway; Powellite...Devilline from the Czech Republic; Duftite in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from
Journal (issue)
Mineralogy of the Spring Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number...and 1909, the mines of the Last Chance mining district produced significant quantities of copper and...the 1830s by the 6th Duke and rebuilt with large calcite crystals and other specimens from the Duke’s fabulously...fabulously rich copper mines at Ecton Hill, Staffordshire. From Watson’s original handwritten catalogs...specimens of chalcopyrite and other minerals from Ecton Hill in Staffordshire (nominally part of the Derbyshire
Catalog/List
Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518...department. It will be held in the Dallas Design district at 1518 Slocum Street on June 2, 2013. The auction...after LAUMONTITE with APOPHYLLITE Mumbai District (Bombay District), Maharashtra, India Three minerals makeup...Haramosh Mts., Gilgit Dist., Gilgit-Baltistan Div., Pakistan The remote and rugged terrain of the Haramosh...87004 KROEHNKITE Chuquicamata Mine, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile A very sizable, old
Book
to 50 mm(approx. 2in) also occur there, as do calcite crystalwith copper inclusions. Superb supergene...in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from Rosia Montana...aggregates of fine gold wires come from Famcomb Hill near Breckcnridge, Colorado, USA. Fine crystals...Greenland. Crystals were also found in Sterling Hill, New Jersey and Crestmore, California. USA Foliated...associated with gypsum, anhydrite, aragonite, calcite. Selenium Se TRIGONAL • • Properties: C gray
Book
to 50 mm(approx. 2in) also occur there, as do calcite crystalwith copper inclusions. Superb supergene...aggregates of fine gold wires come from Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Fine crystals...in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from Rosia Montana...Crystals of metamorphic origin come from Sterling Hill, New Jersey, USA. Properties: C - tin-white to...Greenland. Crystals were also found in Sterling Hill, New Jersey and Crestmore, California, USA Foliated
Book (edition)
coral actually are made up of mineral material (calcite and aragonite) but created through the agency of...limestone, which is composed entirely of the mineral calcite. Most rocks, however, are made up of several minerals...deposits. IDENTIFICATION OF GEMSTONES deposited calcite. Dolomite — massive sedimentary rock composed... 8. Topaz 2. Gypsum 6. Feldspar 9. 3. Calcite 7. Quartz Corundum Diamond 4. Fluorite 10...This contains specially cut pieces of the mineral calcite that are oriented only light polarized in a single
Book
localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline...nepheline, biotite and albite-antiperthite crystals in calcite-cored vein-dikes (by L. Moyd) 21:235-248 ALICE...18:185187 ALLACTITE AJlactite from Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey (by P. J. Dunn) 14:251-252 ALLCHAR Famous...ALLEGHANYITE A highly magnesian alleghanyite from Sterling Hill, New Jersey (by 0. V. Petersen, J. BoUhorn & P....(by S. A. Williams) 1:68-69 Cometite from Saginaw Hill, Arizona (by B. Khin) 1:117-118 Chalcoalumite from
Journal (issue)
vivid “canary” yellow elbaite from the Lundazi District of eastern Zambia, the most important source of...amber • Andradite from Namibia • Andradite from Pakistan • Axinite from Tanzania • Baddeleyite from Mogok...elbaite is the Canary mining area in the Lundazi District of eastern Zambia. The tourmaline has been mined...Chipata area, and the actual locality is the Lundazi District, located ~160 km to the north (as indicated by...PRODUCTION Initial gem discoveries in the Lundazi District probably occurred in the late 1970s through activities
Catalog/List
Julie Gonzales, Rachel Peart, Kelly Jones, Jennifer Hill, Abel Privado, Royce Cornelison and Jon Brotherton...MOUNT Boselaphus tragocamelus Native to Eastern Pakistan and India, the Nilgai Antelope now thrives on...International record book and was taken in the Cape Province of South Africa a few years ago. The leaping action...originated in this state, and is most plentiful in the Hill Country. This example is a mature ram of average...Julie Gonzales, Rachel Peart, Kelly Jones, Jennifer Hill, Abel Privado, Royce Cornelison and Jon Brotherton
Book (edition)
is an imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400...extensive fields in the prophetically named Kimberley district of Western Australia promise to be of world importance...white ornamental marble, composed entirely of calcite, is a good example (Figure 1.2). Most rocks, however...intermediate and acid members of the volcanic province in southern Brazil and Uruguay, and the fire opals...minerals then crystallize in the following sequence: calcite (CaCO3), dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2), gypsum (CaSO42H2O)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Brüggenite Brunckite Brushite Bustamite Calaverite Calcite Cancrinite Canfieldite Carbocernaite Carlinite Carnallite...biotite, calcite, zircon, aegirite, pyrochlore and apatite. Duricrusts containing chiefly calcite. A metamorphic...minerals include hornblende, biotite, chlorite, and calcite. This diabasic texture is also termed interstitial...The accessory minerals are apatite, cancrinite, calcite, titanite and melanite–garnet. It is the plutonic...highly Na feldspar. Additionally chlorite, epidote, calcite and even amphibole and pyroxene may be present
 
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