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Prehnite from
Balochistan, Pakistan


Locality type:Province
Classification
Species:Prehnite
Formula:Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz42 photos of Prehnite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Calcite9 photos of Prehnite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Epidote1 photo of Prehnite associated with Epidote at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prehnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Balochistan, Pakistan
Photo GalleryView Gallery (16 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:861797
Long-form Identifier:1:3:861797:2
GUID (UUID V4):b55db185-d748-4521-9026-0ce24e9257ef
Localities for Prehnite in this Region
Kharan District, Balochistan, Pakistan
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
dated March 23, with four superb miniatures of prehnite from Merelani. We have known for a while of the...the glassy, rounded, pale yellowgreen prehnite aggregates from this locality, but these new, vaguely rosette-shaped...crystals justify Mike’s remark that while “Merelani prehnite is considered by many, including me, to be the...here—already marked “sold” by April 3—is priced at $600. Prehnite, 3.2 cm, from the Merelani mines, Manyara Region...market from the Kharan District, Balochistan, southwestern Pakistan. Some specimens were (and are) tagged
Report (issue)
is more customary for Rudolf, but rather from Pakistan. Here we have, first, seven fine specimens of...Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Saphira Minerals specimen and photo. Epidote...Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Saphira Minerals specimen and photo. On that...in the Zard Mountains near Kharan, Balochistan, southwestern Pakistan. Now, this contemporary locality...9 cm, from the Zard Mountains, Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan. Saphira Minerals specimen and photo. 12
Catalog/List
Postage extra at standard post office rates. I PREHNITE pale green botryoidal over mqst of the surface...cut. I think the overall appearance of the l1 prehnite overcomes the cut edges ! Copper Valley Digging...base has been sawn flat so it stands up. Mansehra Pakistan £25 15 TANTALITE obvious dark grey veins in Feldspar...mass ~·•----'"---~ Kharan District Balochistan Province Pakistan 5x2.5 the widest part) £10 (at 82
Report (issue)
cm, from the Killa Saifullah district, Balochistan, Pakistan. The Arkenstone specimen and photo. First...prospects in the Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan Province, Pakistan. I have at least alluded to this new...graywhite to pale bluish green whereas that from Pakistan comes in shades ranging from pale grayish yellow...specialties: (1) “contemporary” mineral occurrences in Pakistan and Afghanistan, with many specimens gathered...(typically) vague locality in GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan: 4 =========================================
Journal (issue)
Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Jeff Scovil photo. (below) Cerussite sixling...3 cm, from the Killa Sifullah district, Balochistan, Pakistan. Jeff Scovil photo. Beryllonite, 7 cm,...beach agates to trips to Mali in Africa to collect prehnite with epidote. My favorite activities include using...Peninsula, Alaska; self-collected. Jeff Scovil photo. Prehnite, 9 cm, from Bonnie Lake Road Mile 83, Glenn Highway...case of over 500 barite specimens. Smithsonite, prehnite, sphalerite and the minerals of Mali are other
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...Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan P hoto by Jeff Scovil Collection Herb Obodda Back:
Journal (issue)
Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 11.5cm. Fine Minerals International proudly...II, there was a discovery of orange prehnite (see under Prehnite) in association with calcite, xonotlite...(Cairncross and Beukes, 2013). 65 Figure 142. Prehnite, 3 cm, from the N’Chwaning II mine. University...collection; Bruce Cairncross photo. Figure 143. Prehnite, 14.5 cm, from the N’Chwaning II mine. Desmond...collection; Bruce Cairncross photo. Prehnite   Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 Prehnite was unknown in the mines of the
Journal (issue)
crystals to more than 4 cm individually, with prehnite, apophyllite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and quartz...among other associated minerals is (probable) prehnite in lath-shaped intergrowths in adularia. The youngest...Samson veins. Prehnite   Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 Only one historical report of a find of prehnite exists (Luedecke...inclusions in adularian orthoclase are certainly prehnite (see under Orthoclase). Proustite   Ag3AsS3 In...Natrolite Nontronite Opal Orthoclase Phillipsite-Ca Prehnite Quartz Saponite Scolecite Stilbite Talc (?) Thomsonite
Journal (issue)
calcite, diopside, quartz sphalerite, topazolite, prehnite, wollastonite P and T = unknown P and T = unknown...2006), as well as in the Kaghan Valley in northern Pakistan (Milisenda et al., 2001). In 2009, high quality...mindat. org/demantoid), such as in Bolochistan, Pakistan (Adamo et al., 2015). InColor ‫ ׀‬Summer 2017...in the Kerman area (Iran), and Kaghan Valley (Pakistan); (ii) skarns, e.g. from Antetezambato (Madagascar)...Bagh Borj (Iran), Kaghan Valley and Bolochistan (Pakistan), and for Type II, the deposits of Antetezambato
Journal (issue)
from Dassu, Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. James Elliott photo. Supplement to The Mineralogical...albite, 11 cm, from Nyet Bruk, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Roberto Appiani photo. "IMPERIAL" TOPAZ 9.6-cm...January-February, 2011 37 DORI & MAURIZIO CASAZZA PREHNITE 14 cm (with crystals to 2 cm), from Goboboseb...3-cm crystal from Mulla Ghori, Zagi Mountains, Pakistan. Roberto Appiani photo. Supplement to The Mineralogical...is 3 cm), from Taftan, Chagai district, Balochistan, Pakistan. Roberto Appiani photo. 50 Supplement
Journal (issue)
Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection; Joe Budd photo. Middle...Katlang, Mardan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo. Tanzanite...Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Paul Bordovsky photo. Tourmaline, 11.5 cm, from Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. Jeff Scovil...from the Shigar Valley, Skardu, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. James Elliott photo. Supplement to The Mineralogical...from the Shigar Valley, Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Ex Herb Obodda collection; Robert Mosely photo
Catalog/List
CT 49 72078 Gemstone: Scheelite - 24.14 Cts. Pakistan Scheelite is more commonly seen as a mineral specimen...72102 Fluorite Nagar Dist., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan 72106 Rhodochrosite Sweet Home Mine, Alma Mining...Chumar Bakhoor, Nagar Dist., GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan 72104 Grossular Garnet Vesper Peak, Snohomish... Mimoso do Sul, Espirito Santo, Brazil 72119 Prehnite Sandare, Nioro Cercle, Kayes Region, Mali 72123...Aquamarine Shigar Valley, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan Session Two, Auction #8068 | Wednesday, December
Journal (issue)
mainly of chlorite-group minerals, “pumpellyite,” prehnite, epidote, muscovite, titanite, actinolite, quartz...alpine-type faden quartz from Switzerland, France and Pakistan. Faden quartz crystals are typically found in...Kaolinite Muscovite Olivine group (*) Palygorskite Prehnite (*) Pumpellyite group (*) Pyrophyllite Quartz...January–February, 2019 79 Figure 7. Apophyllite on prehnite, 11.2 cm, from the Fairfax quarry, Centreville...epidote in miniature sizes from Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan, and specimens of smoky quartz crystals
Journal (issue)
Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan. Jeff Scovil photo. Prehnite, 13 cm, from Sandare, Kayes Region, Mali. Jeff... from the Wadh mine, Khuzdar district, Balochistan, Pakistan. Jeff Scovil photo. (below) Cornetite,...cm, from the Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Jeff Scovil photo. 40 Supplement to The Mineralogical...Record, January–February, 2020 John Lucking Prehnite epimorph after Laumontite, 13 cm, from the Dahisar...cm, from the Shigar district, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Jeff Scovil photo. (above right) Copper (spinel-law
Journal (issue)
from Alchuri, Shigar district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Gold, 2.3 cm, from the Kintore mine, Kintore-Kunanalling...Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Topaz, 8 cm, from Monte Alegre de Goias, Goias...RakaposhiHaramosh Mountains, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. 14 Supplement to The Mineralogical Record,...Braldu Valley, Skardu district, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Jeff Scovil photo. Supplement to The Mineralogical...Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan district, Balochistan region, Pakistan. Craig Bosel/Michael Stott photo. Cerussite
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.2 Chlorite-Prehnite Schist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Bagh, Zhob and Waziristan-Khost ophiolites in Pakistan and bordering Afghanistan (Alleman 1979; Gnos...Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. The western ophiolite belt of Pakistan consists of pyroxenite, gabbro and sheeted dikes...Sea was subducted 65–70 many years ago in the Pakistan sector (Valdiya 2010). The Paleocene-Early Eocene...km2) is the third largest ophiolite complex in Pakistan after Bela and Zhob (Jan et al. 1985). It occurs
Journal (issue)
2020 TEN3 (Theater) Tourmaline, 7.6 cm Paprok, Pakistan Rudolf Watzl Freistadt, Austria Visit our website...Mardan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Wildfang Collection; Anton Watzl, Sr., photo...with hambergite, 8 cm, from Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Wildfang Collection; Anton Watzl, Sr., photo...Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Basltistan, Pakistan. Wildfang Collection; Malte Sickinger photo. Figure...Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Wildfang Collection; Anton Watzl, Sr., photo
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(see this entry for Actinolite, Fluorapatite, Prehnite, Pumpellyite). Ilmenite was found in numerous...measuring 2.5 X 8 X 12 cm (Pekov, 2000). ASIA PAKISTAN FORMER SOVIBT UNION RUSSIA Dodo deposit near...of iron-rich inesite, manganese-rich (orange) prehnite, hydroxyapophyllite, pectolite and calcite. The...in massive grossular, with calcite, stilbite, prehnite and apophyllite (DeVito and Ordway, 1984). Pine...associated with quartz, calcite, stilbite and prehnite. The long-prismatic laumontite crystals are white
Journal (issue)
Rachidia Province, Draa-Tafilalet region, Morocco, prehnite of an unusual color and habit has been emerging...250. Pale brown, mediumlustrous microcrystals of prehnite are densely packed in spherical aggregates with...intricate little networks on a matrix 323 Figure 16. Prehnite, 4.9 cm, from the Merelani mine, Arusha, Tanzania...yellow-green prehnite in spheres and hemispheres. Loose groups of tabular blue prehnite crystals followed...sharp, tabular, blue-purple crystals of Merelani prehnite to 3 cm, some with associated graphite, in thumbnail
Journal (issue)
eine ähnliche Form wie die von dort bekannten Prehnite. 7, 5 cm hohe Stufe von FabreMinerals.com, Foto:...passen zum feineren Geschmack der heutigen Zeit. Pakistan lieferte einen größeren Fund mit dunklen, cog11acfarhe11e11...Clevelandit-Rosetten. Mehrere Händler, hauptsächlich aus Pakistan, boten gleichzeitig Stufen aus diesem Fund nahe...cm großen R/10doc/1rosit-Rädchen! In Kharan, Balochistan fand man heuer erneut wieder rund hundert Stufen...diesjährigen Fund im Gebiet von Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan. Ausgestellt bei Nausherwani Minerals, Foto:
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Photo 9 Brookite from Ras Koh Mts, Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan 8 x 4 x 5 cm I have several small crystals...Azurite Photo 2 Descloizite - 35 - Colin Brough 3.Prehnite, (Ca Al Si O (OH) ) with Calcite and Quartz 2...basalt, but also produces beautiful examples of prehnite with quartz and calcite. We were invited to view...purchased the specimen shown as my entrance fee. The prehnite had good colour and was nicely set within small...everything else was fair game. There was good prehnite to collect, with calcite, quartz and epidote,
Journal (issue)
Clyne photo. occurrences in the Swat Valley, Pakistan and the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. The technique...schists and quartz lenses without pegmatites (Swat, Pakistan), (5) phlogopite/carbonate-talc schists without...Dudley's specimens, which he obtained in Peshawar, Pakistan, may represent a new discovery in Sar-e-Sang or...gemmy red crystals of rutile from "Zagi Mountain," Pakistan which were brought to the 2015 Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines...Loe Shilman (near Zagi Mountain), Khyber Agency, Pakistan. Mustafa Ghulam specimens; Joaquim Callen photo
Journal (issue)
P hosphates (A L) $10 (112 p.) Elba, M aine, Pakistan, N epal, C alifornia, etc. $10 v .1 6 /# 6 G...plethora o f new mineral discoveries in northern Pakistan. Unfortunately, the specimens fo u n d do not...* POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is divided into four autono­ mous provinces, plus...government. The four provinces, Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan (sometimes: Baluchistan), and North West Frontier...people of Pakistan. The Provinces have significant self-government powers, so that Pakistan may be considered
Catalog/List
enthusiastic.” other areas of India. He Gilgit Highway, Pakistan, 1986. imported such large volumes of zeolites.............................................102 Pakistan ................................................ FLUORAPOPHYLLITE 72103 Fluorapophyllite on Prehnite Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Culpeper Basin, Fairfax...inch apophyllite “lower” growing on a mound of prehnite covered with small apophyllite crystals. One of... 72136 Quartz var. Faden Zhob District, Balochistan, Pakistan “A matrix of small quartz crystals with
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worldwide. Stevensite and kerolite formed after prehnite, calcite, analcime, pectolite, and natrolite during...mm long, but most grains are <0.05 mm in size. Prehnite is rather rare in the trapezohedra and the main...substitution. The compositions are typical of prehnite produced during hydrothermal alteration and low-grade...with beryl, var. aquamarine, on muscovite, Nagar, Pakistan, 8.6  6.7  4.8 cm. Siderite, Mont Saint-Hilaire... Bongala Springs Mine, Shigar Valley, Gilgit, Pakistan, 32.5  22.9  12.8 cm. Euclase, Lost Hope Mine
 
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