 | | 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...aquamarine); 19.6 cm high Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan P hoto by Jeff Scovil |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter 1 $3.00 Shigar r-------------------------~ Blues "I have got them Shigar Blues" rhythmically...and all, early this morning. Is this day four in Shigar? . Life is timeless here: no newspaper, no news...rest house in Dassu, on the Braldu River in Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan. With the road to Chutron...Chutron in the Basha Valley blocked because of road construction, we were forced to change from that favorite...problematic. Garnet on albite is from Seydar, Ho Nala, Pakistan. D. Blauwet photo. We, my jeep driver, Shaj i |  | | 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...the term "topaz" in reference to the olivines, quartz, and other Topaz crystals can be extraordinarily...Moreover, gold-color quartz ("citrine") is often labeled "topaz quartz" and brown, smoky quartz is sold as "smoky...schorl, and albite, 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen collection, Scovil |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Trinchillo Sapat Gali, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan .............................and quartz (nicknamed the âKing of Kashmirâ), 80 cm, from the Biangsapi Gon mine near Nyet Bruk, Pakistan...FineMineral.com Aquamarine & Quartz | Nyet-Bruk, Skardu District, Pakistan | 15 cm orders@crystalclassics...CRYSTALCLASSICS.CO.UK MALKHAN Tourmaline with Quartz and Cleavelandite | Malkhan Pegmatite Field, Russia...High in the mountain ranges of the Shigar Valley region of Pakistan, hundreds of mine tunnels pierce steep |  | | Journal (issue) | | Magdalensburg (Carinthia, Austria), where a series of quartz crystals were found at a settlement that can be...(Lombardy, northem Italy), a transparent and perfect quartz crystaldoubly terminated and about 2.5 cm in diameter-was...foothills of the Lombardy Alps (Pezzotta, 1999), where quartz occurs in a deposit very similar to that of the...the Sicilian sulfur deposits; so-called "fenster quartz" of Porretta Terme; gypsum and other minerals of...platform in the Fassa Valley and the Siusi Alp; druses of orthoclase and quartz with associated minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada for two summers, subleasing the Royal Peacock...lustrous, prismatic crystals of epidote, excellent quartz, idiomorphic albite, tourmaline, morganite and...principal city of the entire Jequitinhonha River valley (COMIG-Projeto Espinhaço, 2002). Eucalyptus trees...eluvium has a matrix of fine to medium-grained quartz and ferruginous soil. Above, there is a colluvium...fine sandy clay matrix, with sparse fragments of quartz and ferruginous pisolites. The thickness of the |  | | Catalog/List | | Stuart Wilensky August 2020 4 5 Fluorite on Quartz Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China...seen. 12 13 The Hunza, Braldu, and Shigar Valleys in Northern Pakistan are known for their exceptional...Aquamarine on Feldspar Nyet-Bruk, Shigar Valley, Skardu Dist., N. Area, Pakistan 10.2 cm tall x 5.7 cm...tall x 20.3 cm wide 20 21 Amethyst on Quartz Andilamena Quartz Quarries, Andilamena Dist., Toamasina...Romero and Gene Meieran 26 27 Morganite with Quartz Mawi, Laghman Prov., Afghanistan 8 cm tall x 15 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Record, volume 37, NovemberâDecember, 2006 511 QUARTZ, 5.5 cm, Dalnegorsk, Russia. Jeff Scovil photo... 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Cartographer William W. Besse, Green Valley, AZ Rocks & Minerals is available online at Editorial...Limoeiro Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara~uaf Pegmatite District, . Minas Gerais, Brazil, Michael A. Menzies Signature...5 cm, Limoeiro mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara<;uar district, Minas Gerais, Brazil; private collection, Jeff...issue features a pegmatite mineral, tourmaline on quartz, in keeping with Tucson's Big and Beautiful pegmatite...âą Markus Raschke - The South Platte Pegmatite District of Colorado: New Insights into Mineralogy, Petrogenesis |  | | Journal (issue) | | from the GachalĂĄ mine, GuaviĂł-GuatĂ©que mining district, BoyacĂĄ Department, Colombia. Gail & Jim Spann...Spann collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane...Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection; Joe Budd...Katlang, Mardan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo. Tanzanite...Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root photo. Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture |  | | Journal (issue) | | Calcite-Kevin & Mark Brown collection, page 52; Smoky quartz gwindel-Brent Lockhart collection, page 175; Aquamarine-Wally...unearthing many fine specimens of gadolinite, smoky quartz, fluorite, feldspar in crystals to five feet across...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...Streeter, R. L. Parker found a piece of "heavy quartz" in a stream bed. lt proved to be topaz from a...medium-violet arnethyst crystal specimens from quartz veins. And textbook-sharp, colorless and transparent |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals. This 3.6-cm specimen consists of white quartz matrix with olive-green muscovite, white albite...single, pale green octahedral fluorite crystal on quartz containing tiny spots of goethite. Unlike many...twenty years. 48ââ ROCKS & MINERALS Figure 13. Quartz variety amethyst is rarely encountered in the Kalahari...(885 grams), from St. Anns mine, Mwami, Karoi district, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. This pegmatite has...FineMineral.com Aquamarine & Quartz | Nyet-Bruk, Skardu District, Pakistan | 15 cm |  | | 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...aesthetic crystalsoften found on a microcline or quartz matrix. Samples are found in cavities in the Sapo...5.6 cm tall Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan John Rakovan collection |  | | Report (issue) | | Spessartine from Tongbei BY BERTOLD OTTENS 70 Pakistan and Afghanistan: Garnet from the Roof of the World...uranium-vanadium deposit of the Sandy Mine in the Laguna District, New Mexico, is the type locality for goldmanite...of the Kao Kimberlite Pipe in the Butha-Buthe district of the landlocked African Kingdom of Lesotho....lazurite ("lapis lazuli"), and various varieties of quartz were generally used for seals in Mesopotamia. Important...Chosroes II" inlaid with large relief-cut garnet, quartz, and green glass (Bibliotheque National de France |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street âą Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street âą Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...FLUORITE Dalânegorsk Tetyuche, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia It...12:00 PM CTââ 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-DraĂą |  | | Book | | will stand the test of time. ON THE COVER: gold on quartz, 4.5 inches tall, Placer County, California Dedication...that the two amethyst crystals and the small clear quartz crystal of an earlier generation had been one specimen...amethysts are associated with a pure white milky quartz that almost looks like porcelain. When the amethyst...beautiful I have ever seen. The specimen of white quartz with the single crystal of deep amethyst measures...countless beautifully crystallized transparent quartz crystals. These are known as âHerkimer diamondsâ |  | | Journal (issue) | | were combined under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey 168 PRODUCTION AND MARKETS...militant Taliban were forcing residents of the Swat Valley, which had been closed for nearly a decade, to...finance terrorist activities (âEmeralds from Swat Valley. . . ,â 2009). The decade also saw the rise in...to the traditional spinel sources of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Myanmar (spinel, if polished elsewhere, is...start operations at the Kagem mine in the Kafubu District, historically Zambiaâs largest source of emeralds |  | | Journal (issue) | | as a civil engineer for the Metropolitan Water District. While working in the desert on the electric transmission...collecting; they took field trips to the Mesa Grande district, the Crestmore quarry, and other localities, and...MardaniFineMinerals.com | w w w. FineMineral.com Colorado Quartz Mine, California, USA 6 cm Rudolph Now accepting...SeptemberâOctober, 2020 MALKHAN Tourmaline with Quartz and Cleavelandite | Malkhan Pegmatite Field, Russia...state is intersected by the Findlay Arch mineral district. The area is characterized by a continental temperate |  | | Journal (issue) | | interests was aquamarines from the Shigir Valley in northern Pakistan. Collecting here is not for the faint-hearted...absolutely amazing display of exquisite aquamarine and quartz crystals hanging from the ceiling of the pocket...most incredible aquamarine specimen ever found in Pakistan from being hacked apartâ. Negotiations were very...with microcline and quartz 80cm. (200kg) Biangsapi Gon Mine near Nyet Bruk, Pakistan. ©Elliott/ Fine Minerals...activity deposited quartz-rich rock. This was later metamorphosed into schist, cut by quartz veins. By 20 â |  | | Journal (issue) | | intergrown clusters in pockets in a matrix of massive quartz and pyrite. Equally inconspicuous were radiating...sarurated blue and intergrown in massive. milky quartz. Andre offers the positive attitude that ..there...guarantees finding nothing. The flow of specimens from Pakistan and Afghanistan continues at a considerably slower...!.~-r.:~ brookite from Pashinc (Beluchistan. Pakistan), none of them as good as the five-digit specimens...was green fluorite from Riemwasmaak (Gordonia District, Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province, South Africa) |  | | Book | | Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...major associations of Swiss hematite iron roses are quartz, ortboclase, albite, rutile, and zeolites (especially |  | | Journal (issue) | | Exhibition of the Dragon Gold Specimen, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California................(nicknamed âthe Dragonâ), 22.9 cm, from the Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California. Collectorâs...exhibition of the Dragon Gold specimen Colorado Quartz Mine, Mariposa County, California Mark Ivan Jacobson...aesthetic shape, was discovered at the Colorado Quartz mine in 1998. The specimen was extracted by the...the âDragon,â discovered in 1998 at the Colorado Quartz mine in Mariposa County, California, is among those |  | | Journal (issue) | | southern Asia (Sri Lanka, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, and China), and Australia. The major...Nigeria and Namibia; exceptional peridot from Pakistan; and pink to red tourmalines from Nigeria and...jade [both jadeite and nephrite], opal, peridot, quartz, spinel, tanzanite, topaz, and tourmaline). Locality...Deposits in Afghanistan (Panjshir Valley) and Pakistan (Swat Valley) produced fine-quality emeralds of...They built fires under massive aquamarine-bearing quartz bodies, and then threw water onto the heated rock |  | | Book (edition) | | very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz or cinnabar. Current practice most often names...polished mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....purine-porphyrine group). a nickel porphyrine. With quartz. rutile, piemontite, sursassite, ardennite, Triclinic...byssolite. Mono- coast of North America: Kobuk River Valley, Alaska, clinic, C2/m, a,b,c = 9.89, 18.20, 5.31 |
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