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Amethyst from
Amethyst occurrence, Muqur District, Ghazni, Afghanistan


Locality type:Mineral Occurrence Area
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calciteⓘ7 photos of Amethyst associated with Calcite at this locality.
Goethiteⓘ6 photos of Amethyst associated with Goethite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Amethyst occurrence, Muqur District, Ghazni, Afghanistan
Photo GalleryView Gallery (18 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1416216
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1416216:7
GUID (UUID V4):21803f63-c94c-4734-94fd-e8ce1c9f869d
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
picture of a highway restaurant at Sibley. (ii) AMETHYST DEPOSITS OF ONTARIO by M.A. Vos Geological Guidebook...purpose of this guidebook is to give an account of amethyst, describing its properties, lore, uses as a gemstone...purple coloured robes. Ontario has recently1 chosen amethyst, the purple variety of quartz, to be the official...of the clear crystal referred to in names like Amethyst Bay in Thunder Bay or Quartz Lake in Maria Township...Ontario place names: agate is used eleven times; amethyst is used five times; flint is used nine times;
Journal (issue)
Localities: The Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico .............................WULFENITE from the Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico; 6.6 cm across. Norm & Roz...continue to produce for some years. Since 1970 the amethyst deposits in the remote Las Vigas area have produced...he invested his own money in the Los Lamentos district and helped manage the operations there until his...Localities: The Erupcio;n/Ahumada Mine Los Lamentos District Chihuahua, Mexico Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical
Journal (issue)
........................191 by R. P. Richards Amethyst occurrences of the eastern United S ta tes......Origlieri Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline, biotite and albite-antiperthite...University M ontgomery, Alabama 36849 Gem and specimen amethyst has been known from exceptional occurrences in...States produce large quantities of fine-quality amethyst specimens. Even less common is the discovery of...exquisite material, there are dozens of other, similar amethyst localities that have sporadically produced good
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rock exposures (amethyst, fluorite, etc.) . . . . . . . . . . . . Jackfi...collector - shown in capital letters; mode of occurrence; brief notes on the locality with specific features...41 I/7 W; 41 I/10 E, W; 41 I/11 E, W. Sudbury district Vermilion River Placers NATIVE GOLD. As fine dust... Refs: 12 pp. 151-159. Maps: 41 N.E. Sudbury district Falcon Gold Mine PYRITE, ACTINOLITE, TALC. Pyrite-quartz-calcite...Refs: 42 pp. 17-20. Maps: 41 I/10 E. Sudbury district Northern Kyanite Mines Limited KYANITE, GARNET
Journal (issue)
the colored gemstone sector. (Photo: ©CIBJO) Afghanistan/Pakistan with low chromium and high iron content...many other states also have deposits of agate, amethyst, beryl, garnet, feldspar, jade, jasper, opal,... Pala Chief and Elizabeth R Mines in the Pala District, this early period remains the most productive...lions; 4.5 cm across. Tourmaline Queen Mine, Pala District, San Diego County. William F. Larson collection...the Tourmaline Queen Mine, Queen Mountain, Pala District, San Diego County. The distinctive "blue cap"
Book (volume)
EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller + GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN by Gary W. Bowersox and Bonita E. Chamberlin...be estimated from the pale rectangular step cut amethyst (left, upper group) which measures about 25 mm...Reservation, AZ...........ssseseee Figure 63. Map of amethyst mine locations, ‘Thunder Bay region of Ontario....... 310 Figure 64. View ot the Thunder Bay Amethyst: Mine; Ontario si... ccc teceonsececrewnceant...Figure 65. Visitors examining amethyst specimens, Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine......... 312 Figure 66.
Book (volume)
EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN by Gary W Bowersox and Bonita E. Chamberlin ...be estimated from the pale rectangular step cut amethyst (left, upper group) which measures about 25 mm........................ 291 Figure 63. Map of amethyst nune locations, Thunder Bay region of Ontario....... 310 Figure 64. View of the Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine, Ontario...................................Visitors exami1ung ametl1yst specimens, Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine......... 312 Figure 66. Collecting agate
Journal (issue)
Bambergers. These lands included the Bleiberg district, and in succeeding years the Austrian government...all of the workings in the western part of the district. On December 11, 1867, the Bleiberger Bergwerks-Union...started and became the principal haulage route in tl district. At the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876 the Bleiberg...economic depression of 1929 mining op< ations in the district were, for a time, suspended. Following Woi War...mining facilities at Federaun in the Bleiberg district, by Markus Pemhart (1863). Figure 4. Even today
Book
Ouro Preto. Photograph taken by Marcelo Lerner. Amethyst flower (85 x 60 mm), Ametista do Sul, Rio Grande...Lavra da Pederneira 526 District of Santa Rosa, Francisc6f olis 534 District o Golconda, Governador Valadares...539 District of Coronel Murra, Rubelita, Salinas, Virgem da Lapa, Ara(uaf and ltinga 554 District o Conselheiro...domain of phanerozoic sedimentary basins: geodes of amethyst quartz, agate, zeolites, apophyllite, silicified...all colors), of quartz (colorless, rutilated, amethyst and agate), of beryl (aquamarine, morganite and
Report (issue)
dispell incorrect though common beliefs about their occurrence. Compounds occurring in Georgia meteorite specimens...manganese occurrences of the Cartersville Mining District. Modern research has shown that psilomelane ores...iron and manganese in the Cartersville Mining District during the 1880's and 1890's, and the development...Mountain, gold crystals of the loud Mine, and amethyst crystals of Rabun, Towns, Wilkes, and Morgan Counties...area, aquamarine from the laGrange vicinity, and amethyst from Charlies Creek in Towns County. The great
Journal (issue)
numbers on amethyst, geodes, Jaspers. etc. We have so far a short article on an amethyst occurrence in Maine;... A Chronological History of the Franklin Zinc District. By John Reiner. Three mimeo~raphed sheets listing...from any world locality. But this Untersulzbach occurrence was soon exhausted, and seems never again likely...light. Halfway around the world from the Austrian occurrence, and even more inaccessible, the locality was...Alaskan coast. Not much came to be known about the occurrence, but a certain C. B. Ferguson was supposed to
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . Cap aux Meules gypsum occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baie du Sud occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................... Butte Ronde occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ile Boudreau occurrence . . .. .. . .. ... . . . . .. . .. . .. . .....34 34 Contents (cont. ) Page Demoiselle Hill occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . Virgin Lake celestite occurrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gutz corundum occurrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . Michaelis corundum occurrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . Jewellville corundum occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... " . . . .. . .. . . . Berger amazonite occurrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
.................................... Unusual occurrence of halite. By Kiril Spiroff ...................numbers on amethyst, geodes, Jaspers, etc. We have so far a sh.ort article on an amethyst occurrence In Maine;...which runs from there up into the Alston Moor district; the whole journey took about an hour. There the...magnesium carbonates had remained intact. A similar occurrence had happened on a specimen I found on another...nuggets were the size of a man's fist. That this district was the seat of a very ancient civilization is
Report (issue)
Meules Cap aux Meules calcite occurrence Cap aux Meules gypsum occurrence Cap au Taureau occurrences Fatima...Baie du Sud occurrence Île du Havre aux Maisons Anse à Damase occurrence Butte Ronde occurrence Chemin des...Head Île de la Grande Entrée Boudreau Island occurrence 26 26 27 27 27 28 30 30 Cap-aux-Meules to Havre-Aubert...Collines de la Demoiselle Collines de la Demoiselle occurrence 31 31 33 33 33 34 Sandy Hook Dune Île du Havre...Bay amethyst occurrence Middle Cove, Outer Cove occurrences Torbay quarry Bauline Road occurrence Quidi
Report (issue)
barite occurrence Pakenham quarry Cedar Hill soapstone occurrence Galetta celestine occurrence Kingdon...Kingdon (Fitzroy, Galetta) mine Stanton lead occurrence Bell’s mine Calabogie area Bluff Point mine Calabogie...Renfrew–McArthurs Mills area Hunt mine Dacre iron occurrence Keyfortmore mine Radnor mine Sunset mine Spain...Kuehl Lake occurrence Quadeville East mine Quadeville West mine Gutz corundum occurrence Michaelis corundum...corundum occurrence Edgemont mine Jewellville corundum occurrence Craigmont (Craig) mine Burgess mine
Book (edition)
dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Rancagua, O'Higgins region, both Chile. At the Roua occurrence, near Guillaumes, and Daluis, Valle du Var, both...10-14°, (+). With clinochlorc at Chester. A AMETHYST A 30 Hampden co.. Massachusetts. with. di~spore...m hgmte shale at Kaibab fault, Utah, the main occurrence is at the Sulphur Bank mine, Lake co., California...cm. yellow or colorless. Very rich is also the occurrence at Tsumeb. anlibia. with crystals to 20 cm. frequently
Journal (issue)
............_. ....... 348 A NEW FLUORESCENT OCCURRENCE IN NEW JERSEY. IJMONITE AFTER WOOD IN LOUISIANA... 349 ROCKS AND MINERALS A NEW FLUORESCENT OCCURRENCE. IN NEW JERSEY By W. H. HAYES Irvington, N. J...county, is in the form of a dike fluorescent occurrence in this state, and which has burst through the...and nose ornaments by the Askinukamut. Amber Occurrence Passing our neighbors on our way to camp, we...cliff of altered sedimentaries. , Another Coal Occurrence Soon we note " float" of an uo•usually dense
Journal (issue)
species and a much greater understanding of the occurrence and character of many other species. Sid authored...Wise fluorite mine in New Hampshire and the amethyst occurrence at Bellingham, Massachusetts, and were rewarded...restart production immediately. In the center of the district, KFOR promoted the resumption of production at...are many from Dalnegorsk, Russia or the Madan district, Bulgaria. Arsenopyrite and sphalerite are also...childrenite often contain tiny vivianite crystals. The occurrence of inclusions of boulangerite in childrenite
Report (volume)
Introduction _______________________________ 49 Chloride district-______________________________ 51 I vocation ______________...Continued. Cerbat Range Continued. Mineral Park district Continued. Tyler mine Lady Bug niine__ Rural and...Continued. Cerbat Range Continued. Stockton Hill district Continued. General outline Continued. Page. Topography...Stockton Hill " area_____________ 118 Gold Basin district ____________________________ 118 General feat...Boulder Creek group____________________ 138 Maynard district ________________________._____ 139 General description__________
Report (volume)
Nome and Norton Bay regions 3 30 Copper River district 3 30 Logarithm tables 3 Regulations 30 3 Instructions...xxvi-xli. Geology and ore deposits of Elkhorn mining district, Jefferson County, Mont., by W. H. Weed, with...Price, 85 cents. XLIII. The Mesabi iron-bearing district of Minnesota, by C. K. Leith. 1903. 316 pp., 33...pls. Price, $1. XLV. The Vermilion iron-bearing district of Minnesota, with atlas, by J. M. Clements. 1903...Director Preliminary report on the Ketchikan mining district, Alaska with an introduc­ tory sketch of the geology
Report (issue)
Tubby Butte ............................ . 98 Occurrence ............................. . 120 Black Pinnacle................ . Occurrence ............................ . White Mesa copper district .............. :...Holmes, W. H., Geological report on the San Juan district: U. s. Bull. 431, pp. 11-25, 1911. Gaol. and Geog...~Dutton, C. E., Tertiary history of the Grand Canyon district: U.S. Woodruff, E. G., Geology of the San Juan...Chinle Valley and south of latitude 36° 14'-a district constituting about one-third the area mapped.
Report (volume)
viii-ix. The physical geology of the Grand Canon district, by Clarence E. Button, pp. 47-166, pis. x-xxxvi...of'the geology of the Comstock lode and the Wash oe district, by George F. Becker, pp. 291-330, pis. xlvi-xlvii...xviii-xxiii. Abstract of report on'geology of the Eureka district, Nevada, by Arnold Hague, pp. 237-290, pis. xxiv-xxv...of a report on the mining geology of the Eureka district, Nevada, by Joseph Story Curtis, pp. 221-251,...Director Continued. Geology of the Lassen Peak district, by J. S. Diller, pp. 395-432, pis. xlv-li. The
 
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