 | | 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 ..........................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) | | 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 |  | | 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) | | Ne Asia Trip - Summer 2002 Burma - Sri Lanka - Pakistan Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals International...slightly etched crystals of aquamarine-colored apatite. 1 also purchased more of these later in Mandalay...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: |  | | 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) | | 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...to Chhappu in the upper Friday, the Muslim holy day. There was a new road currently Braldu Valley. Both...returned to the being built through the village of Shigar, which bypassed the hotel to find several other |  | | 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...association with calcite, vesuvianite, grossular, apatite, wollastonite, hematite, prehnite, perovskite,...of the Kao Kimberlite Pipe in the Butha-Buthe district of the landlocked African Kingdom of Lesotho....garnet cameo swan from the excavations at Taxila, Pakistan (Victoria and Albert Museum, London). During the |  | | 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 (“Emeralds from Swat Valley. . . ,” 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 Zambia’s largest source of emeralds |  | | 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...scratch calcite (Examples: diallage, lazulite, apatite, harrnotome) 4. Substances that cannot scratch...2004 1.Talc 2. Gypsum 3. Calcite 4. Fluorite 5. Apatite 6. Feldspar 7. Quartz 8. Topaz 9. Corundum 10....3.01 3.05 2.83 3.48 5.48 3.30 5.19 1.5 5 Apatite (0001) (1010) 6 Orthoclase (100) (010) (001) |  | | Journal (issue) | | Colombia • Color-change fluorite • Herderite from Pakistan • Jeremejevite from Myanmar and Sri Lanka • Pink...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...South America (Colombia and Brazil), Asia (Russia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan), and Africa (Zambia and Zimbabwe)...D: Talc-carbonate schist–related emerald (Swat, Pakistan) • Category E: Muscovite schist–related emerald |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gem Notes Amethyst from Brazil|Beryllonite from Pakistan|Apache Blue Stone from Arizona, USA| Yellow Tianhuang...Ethiopia|Tourmaline from Mwajanga and Simanjiro District, Tanzania|Alluvial diamond mining in South Africa|...pyrite and rhodochrosite inclusions|Quartz from Pakistan with biotite and actinolite inclusions|HPHT synthetic...Laurs FGA and Nathan D. Renfro Beryllonite from Pakistan Beryllonite (NaBePO4) is an uncommon mineral that...for faceting and use in gently worn Figure 4: Pakistan is the source of this beryllonite, which weighs |
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