 | | 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) | | from the C en ten n ia l Eureka m in e, T intic district, Juab C ounty, U ta h ..........................end o f the Wallapai Mining District. The major mining centers of the district included Cerbat, Chloride...is gener ally at a stand-still throughout the district. The town of Cerbat played a lively role in the...the Cerbat M ountains and the Wallapai Mining District is extremely complex and beyond the scope of this...mine. DINGS, M. G. (1951) The Wallapai mining district, Cerbat Moun tains, Mohave County, Arizona. U |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 20:57 24 December 2014 Figure 7. Quartz variety amethyst, 8.9 cm across, from Karur, Tamil...aquamarine, 9 cm high, from Sabsar, Skardu Road, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Jeremy C. Smith specimen...2 cm high, from the Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Pakistan. Marcus Budil specimen. This is the type...gem crystal that has made Pakistan famous. Figure 11. Brookite and quartz, 6.4 cm high, from Dalbundi...Dalbundi, Baluchistan, Pakistan. Marcus Budil specimen. I like the way the classic zoning shows in this group |  | | 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 |  | | 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...and albite, 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen collection, Scovil photo |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...• Markus Raschke - The South Platte Pegmatite District of Colorado: New Insights into Mineralogy, Petrogenesis...important and have been mined for muscovite, feldspar, quartz, lithium minerals, tantalum and niobium minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | in Dassu, on the Braldu River in Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan. With the road to Chutron in the...problematic. Garnet on albite is from Seydar, Ho Nala, Pakistan. D. Blauwet photo. We, my jeep driver, Shaj i...down, down, down to the next bridge crossing the Baltistan. then you may understand. Braldu River and cross...that to sell to me. I had come to Pakistan and particularly to Baltistan. The blues feeling of the first...Nyet Bruk. siege while Baltistan was living up to its motto, "Peaceful Baltistan." But They were super |  | | Journal (issue) | | were combined under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey 168 PRODUCTION AND MARKETS...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...ultimately decided in eBay’s favor when the U.S. District Court of New York determined that the burden of... Inc., United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Case No. 08-11261, www.bankruptcylitigationblog |  | | Journal (issue) | | spha- Ortobrr 2000 -----_ lerite. dolomite, and quartz. For abstracts of this year's talks and informai...pieces. There was a large supply of Japan law twin quartz from Pampa Bl anca Mine. Peru. These are singles...matri x from Viloco, Boli via. Some have a l ittle quartz associated. The twinned cassiterite crystals are...larger. in clusters. Fabulous specimens if you like quartz! W rights Rock Shop (36 I 2 Albert Pike, Hot Springs...to see four specimens of the dark salmon orange quartz from Dalnegorsk. Russia. C hris said there were |  | | 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...Crystals are frequently found in association with quartz, calcite, galena, sphalerite, and barite to form...Upper right: I -cm wide fluorite dodecahedra with quartz; Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado The Collector...Spinet-law contact twin; II cm wide; Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan Dudley Blauwet specimen; Kevin Dixon photo Lower |  | | Report (issue) | | as seen in the pink and blue crystal above from Pakistan, is not uncommon. This specimen is in the collection...blue beryl on feldspar from the Northern Areas, Pakistan (upper left; collection Dudley Blauwet; photo...marker, near Sabsar, on the Gilgit to Skardu Road, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Collection...phosphate type pegmatites, beryl is associated with quartz, microcline, albite, muscovite, biotite, ferrocolumbite...Alpine and hydrothermal veins, it is found with quartz and feldspar. In topaz rhyolites where red beryl |  | | Journal (issue) | | Notes Antigorite serpentine from northwestern Pakistan|‘Black’ axinite| Beryl from Tanzania with phenakite...Vietnam|Lace opal from Utah, USA|Pollucite from Pakistan with polylithionite inclusions|Large ruby matrix...Osun State, Nigeria| Cat’s-eye väyrynenite from Pakistan|Quartzite and calcite bangles resembling jadeite|Large...COLOURED STONES Antigorite Serpentine from North-West Pakistan During the 2015 Tucson gem shows in Arizona, USA...north-west Pakistan by two different dealers. Syed Iftikhar Hussain (Syed Trading Co., Peshawar, Pakistan) donated |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................... 75 by W. E. Wilson COVER: QUARTZ crystal cluster, 8.2 cm, from the Second Sovietskiy...gave us an interesting study on “Unusually shaped quartz aggregates from Timiauz, Russia” (vol. 27, p. 205-206...Essexite-Diabase, Shoukinite)— Paleogenic (8) Felsite, Quartz Porphyry— Paleogenic (9) Datolite Skarn (10) Danburite...Danburite Skarn (11) Garnetiferous Skarn (12) Quartz-Calcite Veins and Lenses (13) Faults Russian expansion...deposit (after Smirnov et a l 1983). (1) Andesite (2) Quartz Porphyry (3) Siliceous Shale and Sandstone (4) |
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