 | | 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) | | 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) | | scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...extravagantly before finally deciding that bis passion had gone too far, and made arrangements for his collection... 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 (issue) | | Trinchillo Sapat Gali, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan .............................cm, from the Biangsapi Gon mine near Nyet Bruk, Pakistan. Private collection; James Elliott photo, Fine... Aquamarine & Quartz | Nyet-Bruk, Skardu District, Pakistan | 15 cm orders@crystalclassics.co.uk |...High in the mountain ranges of the Shigar Valley region of Pakistan, hundreds of mine tunnels pierce steep...a collector for almost 15. On my first trip to Pakistan I was on the hunt for a different gem mineral: |  | | Journal (issue) | | .433 by T. P. Moore COVER: TITANITE twin with albite and epidote on matrix, 4.4 cm, from Capelinha,...Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada for two summers, subleasing the Royal Peacock...crystals of epidote, excellent quartz, idiomorphic albite, tourmaline, morganite and green gem-grade fluorapatite...collector-quality specimens of titanite, epidote, albite, adularian orthoclase and fluorapatite crystals...principal city of the entire Jequitinhonha River valley (COMIG-Projeto Espinhaço, 2002). Eucalyptus trees |  | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...5:00 PM ET LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Thursday...grow. 73001 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) Looking almost like...com/6150 73002 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) For those that have...750 73003 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) As if Momeik doesn’t |  | | Book | | surveyor ( B a d Shah Jan of the Survey of Pakistan), both from Pakistan, also joined the stafl. The scientific...Survey, M r . M . Aziztrllah of the Survey of Pakistan, and M r . Javed, a student at the University...Indus river, from Skardu as far west as the Stak valley, and the principal ridge of the Karakorum to the...and Gilgit and eastwards as far as Bagicha. The territory covered in 1955 lies between the Gilgit area...Chogo Lungma and the Sosbun glaciers, and the upper valley of the Hunxa river. The present volunze deals with |  | | Journal (issue) | | by C. A. Francis Pakistan Gem pegmatites of the Shingus-Dusso area, Gilgit, Pakistan....................COVER: Tourmaline crystal group 9 cm long, with albite and lepidolite, mined recently at the Himalaya...species will be inevitable; for instance, the Pakistan pegmatites covered here have also yielded superb...localities: the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, California (by E. E. Foord) [1977, vol. 8, no...Eichholz’s translation, 1971) “Caria” is an ancient district in southwestern Asia Minor. The In dian stones |  | | Report (issue) | | down their middles, the prehnite having coated now-gone anhydrite crystals; in other words these are specimens...crests of albite (variety cleavelandite) crystals from the Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Colorless...microcline, 5.5 cm, from the Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Trinity Minerals specimen and...busy website specializing in quartz varieties, Pakistan/Afghanistan minerals, and some jewelry on the...Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Colorado Gem & Mineral Company specimen and photo |  | | Journal (issue) | | graders at the Copper Creek Elementary School in Oro Valley, spearheaded a campaign in 2014 to propose exactly...to my Representative, Mark Finchem (R-District 11, Oro Valley), asking him to be the primary sponsor... Mark Candee Gold, 2.3 cm, from the Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Ken Donn photo. Wulfenite...(hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected in 1958;... 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken Donn photo. Cerussite |  | | Journal (issue) | | where ores from the various mines of tbe Silver District were treated. The now-famous Red Cloud rnine was...and 1889 he shipped 5,000 specimens of Silver District vanadinite back to Philadelphia. Around 1910 an...including the Flux mine, the Mammoth mine, tbe Silver District mines (including the Red Cloud), and mines in...Gold, 3.3 and 6.8 cm, from the Santa Elena River district, Bolivar Province, Venezuela. Ex Hubert de Monmonier...6.5 cm, from the Morenci mine, Copper Mountain district, Greenlee County, Arizona. Dale Armstrong photo |  | | 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...brother, and beard the bad news that his sibling had gone to Karachi. I was disappointed as this man normally...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | West mine, Congo Republic. (7) Sodalite, Kokcha Valley, Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia...specimens is quite old, though they have not always gone by that name. The practice probably originated with...thumbnail mineral specimens” published in the Antelope Valley (California) Gem and Mineral Club bulletin, mentioned...cm, from the Eagle’s Nest mine, Michigan Bluff District, Placer County, California. Jingnan Zhang collection...Bustamite, 2.7 cm, from the North mine, Broken Hill District, New South Wales, Australia. Stretch Young collection |  | | Journal (issue) | | realized that although my planned itinerary had gone all astray, I had gained a wonderfol encounter....diameter; these are documented from the Hackman Valley, Kola Peninsula, Russia (see Jaszczak et al. (2007)...twinned and had been purchased in Niaslo in the Basha Valley. I examined it and thought that it could possibly...reticulated crystals of rutile with some quartz and albite. These quickly were added to my pile and I then...check-ins, so I had to wrestle the over-sized Braldu Valley that I had known, and we haggled endlessly until |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | QEOLOGYor QiraiT. 337 22. NOTES 0~ the G~oLoGz of GILGIT. :By Lieut.-Gem C. A. :MCMAH0~, Y.R.S., F.G.S....to Chilas. (4) Ramghat to Gilgit. (5) Gilgit to the Kilik Pass. (6) Gilgit to Yasin and the Darkot Pass...Pass. (7) The Ashkurman (Ishkumman) Valley. Part III. Conclusion ......................................., Political Agent, Malakand, when stationed at Gilgit, made field-observations and collected rock-specimens...in the course of numerous traverses through the Gilgit area. I have not had an opportunity of visiting |  | | Book | | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...numerous crystal pockets, associated with small albite crystals; the platy, flattened-rhombohedral ilmenite...Swiss hematite iron roses are quartz, ortboclase, albite, rutile, and zeolites (especially stilbite), whereas...resting on cavity linings of sharp, opaque white albite ("pericline") crystals emerged from Imilchil around...their circumferences, occur in matrix of white albite, sometimes with the brown zircon crystals. Evseev |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected in...photo. Zektzerite crystal, 1.6 cm, on matrix, with albite and arfvedsonite, from Willow Creek Basin, Okanogan...early lead mines in the Upper Mississippi Valley district (Mineral Point and others). The animal which...Science Museum at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, Menasha, Wisconsin. When the Weis Museum was being...ranges in the southern part of the Lake Superior District (the Marquette, Menominee, Gogebic, Cuyuna, Gunflint |  | | Journal (issue) | | stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This... Farne Museum in Leadville, the Cripple Creek District Museum, and the Western Museum of Mining and Industry...list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results for gold and...grassbopper, a solid gold maldoon except that one wing is gone. And next are pieces of copper linked to eacb other...deep blue amazonite with a selective overgrowth of albite on some faces to give a striped effect to the crystals |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...Collection LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...Mine (Apex-Dixie Mine), Jarvis Peak, Tutsagubet District, Beaver Dam Mountains, Washington County, Utah...Quarry, Jalgaon, Dindori (Dhindori), Nashik District (Nasik District), Maharashtra, India As straightforward... 53007 WULFENITE Shaft 11, Touissit, Touissit District, Oujda-Angad Province, Oriental Region, Morocco |  | | Journal (issue) | | accompanying me to remote areas of the world, from Pakistan to Mexico; for encouraging me (as a collector...advanced collectors can trace the changes they have gone through over the years. In the 1960's and early...interest had shifted to minerals from Brazil, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the array of great gern minerals...Stuart Wilensky, Sandor Fuss and many others have all gone through similar alterations in direction. OTHER... Tourmaline ("Blue-cap") Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala District, San Diego County, California 13.2 cm; The specimen |  | | Journal (issue) | | travel restrictions as to s~~eral bazaa rs in Pakistan have been closed by the authont1es. The 9ealers...Giazotto, photo by Claus Hedegaard. News from Pakistan New Finds and Information Dudley Blauwet Mountain...Minjan. This is a Tajik speaking area in the Kokcha Valley about 80 km from the capital of Faizabad and 40...Andjuman Pass which connects the Kokcha and Panshjer Valley to the south. They are working between 7,000 and...Shahi-Salim Mountains to arrive in Pakistan at Garam Chisma, Chitral Valley. I bought an extraordinary lot |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...FLUORITE Dal’negorsk Tetyuche, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia It...12:00 PM CT 9 52004 MANGANOCALCITE Pachapaqui District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru It...visit HA.com/5168 52005 TALMESSITE Bou Azer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ |
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