 | | 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) | | from the C en ten n ia l Eureka m in e, T intic district, Juab C ounty, U ta h ..........................particularly auspi cious: he bought a beautiful tourmaline, and the Romero Collection was started. In the...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada for two summers, subleasing the Royal Peacock... DANIEL TRINCHILLO | w w w. FineMineral.com Tourmaline Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil. 19.5 cm Fine Minerals...epidote, excellent quartz, idiomorphic albite, tourmaline, morganite and green gem-grade fluorapatite....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 |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | same effect as a more classical slab of bicolor tourmaline from Brazil, acquired in 2022. Actually, the...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | $3.00 The Mineralogy of Desperation Mining Tourmaline and Kotoite in North Korea Alfredo Petrov alfredo@mindat...distorted economics was the decision to mine tourmaline as boron ore! Tourmalines are the most widely...they end up as detrital grains in beach sand. Tourmaline won't dissolve in even concentrated acids at...t\vo alternatives: the "acid process", in which tourmaline was dissolved in hydrochloric or sulphuric acid...fun); and the "alkali process", in which the tourmaline was first dissolved in molten sodium carbonate |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ne Asia Trip - Summer 2002 Burma - Sri Lanka - Pakistan Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals International...bastniisite crystals from Mulagon-Zeega (Warsak, Pakistan), fig. 1. that Andreas Weert h had broug ht. Unfortunately...and after a four- hour layover continued on to Pakistan. a rriving at 8:30 a .m . l slept about four hours...bastnacsitc loca le. The market cemed defic ient in good Pakistan materi:il. and the new tl1111g appearing wen:...hours· drive to Gi lgit. Ea rly the next morning in Gilgit. we viewed two dea lers· stocks, mostly o f new |  | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Landslides Revisited and the Second Annual Basha Valley 5 Km Trail Race Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals...over the Raikot Bridge in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. It is 9:00 p.m. and I am musing over the abrupt...expecting a very long day as we are hoping to reach Gilgit, 16 hours distant on a "good" day. I had expected...the top of the Shangri Pass, separating the Swat Valley from Indus Kohistan. There for the first a 1e in...I had hired a land cruiser and driver from the Pakistan tourist development center, and the driver had |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collection no. 32510; and (8) a 13.94 cuprian elbaite tourmaline from Mozambique, courtesy of Pala International...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 (“Emeralds from Swat Valley. . . ,” 2009). The decade also saw the rise in...(Mayerson and Laurs, 2004), as well as cuprian tourmaline (from Africa), thanks to the discovery of new |  | | 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....other red gemstones such as ruby, spinel, or tourmaline, which probably could not be distinguished at...garnet cameo swan from the excavations at Taxila, Pakistan (Victoria and Albert Museum, London). During the |  | | Report (issue) | | Union & DMITRI BELAKOVSKJ China BY GUANGHUA LIU Pakistan BY DUDLEY BLAUWET Fluorite from Japan BY YOSHIRO... Iridescent Fluorite from Ohio's Findlay Arch District BY JASON MCDONALD 69 Canada BY MARK MAUTHNER...Spinet-law contact twin; II cm wide; Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan Dudley Blauwet specimen; Kevin Dixon photo Lower...including Naica, Mexico (page 72) and Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan (page 92). In addition to well-defined individual...abundance: Mapimi, Durango, Mexico (page 72); Berbes district, Asturias, Spain (page 38); and Seilles, Namur |  | | Journal (issue) | | Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ. Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...http://www.friendsofmi neralogy.org Mississippi Valley Chapter For Chapter information contact Mark Sherwood...the farmer who owns the land), Penha do Norte district, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The new...February 2003, in an alluvial deposit in the Cuiaba district, Gouveia, Minas Gerais. At Costa Mesa Luiz had...Gem-quality forsterite ("peridot") crystals from Suppat, Pakistan are nothing new by now, but Jim Parrish of C.S |  | | Journal (issue) | | Colombia • Color-change fluorite • Herderite from Pakistan • Jeremejevite from Myanmar and Sri Lanka • Pink...moonstone • Sphene from Afghanistan • Uvite-dravite tourmaline from Tanzania • Triploidite from China • Väyrynenite...sale of major gems such as corundum, emerald, tourmaline, alexandrite, and opal. However, without reliable...samples from Colombia, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (table 2). Of the latter samples...ItabiraNova Era, Brazil Santa Terezinha, Brazil Swat, Pakistan Panjshir, Afghanistan Cordillera Oriental, Columbia |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gem Notes Amethyst from Brazil|Beryllonite from Pakistan|Apache Blue Stone from Arizona, USA| Yellow Tianhuang...Canada and northern Ethiopia|Tourmaline from Mwajanga and Simanjiro District, Tanzania|Alluvial diamond...pyrite and rhodochrosite inclusions|Quartz from Pakistan with biotite and actinolite inclusions|HPHT synthetic...narrow growth zones, and the lack of pargasite and tourmaline inclusions that are characteristic of Kashmir...Laurs FGA and Nathan D. Renfro Beryllonite from Pakistan Beryllonite (NaBePO4) is an uncommon mineral that |
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