 | | 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 |  | | 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...schorl, and albite, 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen collection, Scovil...the banks of the Basha River in Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Pakistan. Dudley Blauwet photo, June 12, 2006... Germany; Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Pakistan; near Volyndarsk-Volynsky, Ukraine; |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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) | | Trinchillo Sapat Gali, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan .............................................. 747 COVER: AQUAMARINE with microcline and quartz (nicknamed the “King of Kashmir”)...80 cm, from the Biangsapi Gon mine near Nyet Bruk, Pakistan. Private collection; James Elliott photo...FineMineral.com Aquamarine & Quartz | Nyet-Bruk, Skardu District, Pakistan | 15 cm orders@crystalclassics...High in the mountain ranges of the Shigar Valley region of Pakistan, hundreds of mine tunnels pierce steep |  | | 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...• Markus Raschke - The South Platte Pegmatite District of Colorado: New Insights into Mineralogy, Petrogenesis...States; the high mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan; Minas Gerais in Brazil; Mozambique and Namibia |  | | Journal (issue) | | Trentino Alto-Adige porphyritic platform in the Fassa Valley and the Siusi Alp; druses of orthoclase and quartz...gamet (hessonite variety) and diopside from the Ala Valley. MINERAL COLLECTING FROM THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY...became world-famous for their discoveries in the Ala Valley, and the Pisani family (father and son, respectively...vesuvianite of the rodingites of Piedmont and the Aosta Valley, the sulfur and gypsum from the Ca' Bernardi and...abandoned Sferliin asbestos quarry in the Malenco Valley, following in the footsteps of Pietro Sigismund |  | | Journal (issue) | | driver to let him know that I wanted to leave for Shigar the following morning and that I did not have time...morning and to travel all of the way to Nyet in the Shigar Valley. I then walked to another shop and talked...The second lot opened was of some gemmy town of Shigar, with minimal traffic as the end of the tourist...Muslim holy day. There was a new road currently Braldu Valley. Both of these were put on hold and I returned...returned to the being built through the village of Shigar, which bypassed the hotel to find several other |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gray and Hungry: An Early Mineral Buying Trip to Pakistan (Part II) Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals International...302 Louisville, CO 80027 After having crossed the Gilgit River at the Alam bridge, satisfied that I had...companions and I turned and ambled up the Indus Valley toward Skardu, on one of the only two mostly-sunny...foreboding gorge guarding the lower entrance to the valley. It turned out to not be a mine per se, but an... May 2004 Mineral News 3---- Mineral Buying in Pakistan (Continued from page 1) Local people set to work |  | | Journal (issue) | | from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail & Jim Spann...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...collected fluorescent minerals in the Karnes Uranium district near my ancestral home in south Texas. Over time...with cleavelandite, 9 cm, from Shengus, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Paul Bordovsky photo. Tourmaline, 11 |  | | 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) | | scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...from Barringer Hili; K. Nash specimen and photo. Microcline, 8.5 cm, from Lake Buchanan, Llano County; Bruce... 15 cm, from the Wagholi quarry complex, Pune District, Maharashtra, India. Don and Laura Aaron photo...photo. Spodumene, 9.5 cm, from Resplendor, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Don and Laura Aaron photo...cm, from Raikot, Chilas, Diamar District, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Don and Laura Aaron photo. Celestine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | interstices between crystals of graphic quartz-microcline intergrowths. A continuum of the same massive...constitute a graphic intergrowth with the host microcline grew upward in a vertical orientation in this...upward-coarsening of skeletal quartz (gray) in microcline (white) that contains pale blue bands of tourmaline...alkali feldspar is evident in this specimen of microcline from Araçuaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The bluish...K-feldspar (KAlSi3O8): sanidine, orthoclase, and microcline. Albite and anorthite form a solid-solution series |  | | 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...with large aesthetic crystalsoften found on a microcline or quartz matrix. Samples are found in cavities...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....("steatite"), hematite, " greenstones," calcite, green microcline ("amazonite"), lazurite ("lapis lazuli"), and...garnet cameo swan from the excavations at Taxila, Pakistan (Victoria and Albert Museum, London). During the |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | the most colorful and wonderful specimens of the district—at least, in my opinion. Slices were made of some...specimen of amazonite, which is a green variety of microcline, was mined in the 1970s by the late Ray Ziegler...schorl crystals flaring off the aquamarine and microcline crystals, it is the perfect association specimen... 124 Treasured Minerals Aquamarine with Quartz Pakistan is the current source of most of the world’s fine...condition. This piece is from Shigar. The other specimen is from Gilgit and exhibits a 5-inch-long aquamarine |  | | Book | | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...consists of ilmenite. magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite (Robinson and Chamberlain...measuring 2.5 X 8 X 12 cm (Pekov, 2000). ASIA PAKISTAN FORMER SOVIBT UNION RUSSIA Dodo deposit near...rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning in...region of Alpine-type clefts along the Torrniq Valley produced small numbers of ilmenite specimens reminiscent |  | | 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...state is intersected by the Findlay Arch mineral district. The area is characterized by a continental temperate...Mississippi Valley–Type lead-zinc deposit similar to those at Elmwood, Tennessee, the Tri-State district of Missouri...typical of what might be expected of a Mississippi Valley–Type lead-zinc deposit. The following list summarizes |  | | 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) | | interests was aquamarines from the Shigir Valley in northern Pakistan. Collecting here is not for the faint-hearted...most incredible aquamarine specimen ever found in Pakistan from being hacked apart”. Negotiations were very...aquamarine with microcline and quartz 80cm. (200kg) Biangsapi Gon Mine near Nyet Bruk, Pakistan. ©Elliott/...second SMLS trip. Shattuckite, (xtals 2mm) Copper Valley Mine, Mesopotamia 504, Khorixas, Kunene Region...are found in the copper mines of the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia. It also comes from the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lorda was born in 1971 and grew up in the Napa Valley region of northern California. Before high school...cookeite crusts from elbaite; iron stains from microcline; The Mineralogical Record, volume 54, July–August...Chlorite (chloritoid?) Clinochlore Laumontite Microcline Muscovite Orthoclase Quartz Spessartine Titanite...Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region, Tuléar Province, Madagascar. Mim...Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Mim #2060, acquired in 2018 |  | | Book | | L. Countryman) 8:503-504 AMAZONITE Amazonite [microcline] from the Pikes Peak batholith [Colorado] (by...R. F. Martin) 10:373-384 Colorado amazonite [microcline from the Keyhole vug. Ten-Percenter mine, Teller...Rybicki) 7:72-77 Chalcanthite from the Helvetia district, Arizona (by G. Robinson) 9:252 Cuprite [from...Arizona (by W. A. Thompson) 11:248-250 The Tombstone district, Cochise County, Arizona (by S. A. Williams) 11:251-257... A. Scovil) 21:99-100 Arizona's Silver mining district (by P. Bancroft & G. Bricker) 21:151-168 The Fat |  | | Catalog/List | | Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...enthusiastic.” other areas of India. He Gilgit Highway, Pakistan, 1986. imported such large volumes of.............................................102 Pakistan ................................................248 72001 Wulfenite Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, Trigo Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA “A cluster...$1,000 72002 Wulfenite Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, Trigo Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA “A good bright |
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Nyet, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan