 | | 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) | | Trinchillo Sapat Gali, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan ..................................................785 by W. E. Wilson Black topaz from the Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah .........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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | collection, page 105; Brown Topaz- Barry and Beth Kitt collection, page 150; Blue Topaz-Lyda Hili collection...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...in cavities in the limestone of the creek bed. Topaz In 1904, between the small central Texas towns of..."heavy quartz" in a stream bed. lt proved to be topaz from a Precambrian pegmatite cutting coarse-grained...thereabouts, known geologically as the Llano Uplift. Fine topaz crystals continued to come from the area for most |  | | 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) | | 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) | | 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 EspinhaƧo, 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | down their middles, the prehnite having coated now-gone anhydrite crystals; in other words these are specimens...crystals from the Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Colorless, transparent topaz crystals of modest...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 (article/letter/editorial) | | that yet another of the legendary collectors is gone. Certainly, he will be missed at the shows. Keith...then an early morning trip to dig at the Dorrisās Topaz Mountain Gem mine, in Park County, Colorado, with...heard Dianaās happy cheer as she held up a fine topaz! She was pretty pleased with her day and for good...Aquamarine Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas) Pakistan Overall |  | | Catalog/List | | 10:00 AM ā 5:00 PM CT Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ā¢ Dallas, TX 75207 Session...5:00 PM ET LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ā¢ 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 doesnāt |  | | Journal (issue) | | examination of carbon dioxide in fluid cavities of topaz (J. Am. Chem. Soc.: 1881; 3(4) pp 41 - 53). dunyte-beds...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 |  | | 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) | | by C. A. Francis Pakistan Gem pegmatites of the Shingus-Dusso area, Gilgit, Pakistan....................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...Eichholzās translation, 1971) āCariaā is an ancient district in southwestern Asia Minor. The InĀ dian stones...carbonate rocks, especially those that have underĀ gone metasomatism; and elbaite and liddicoatite are nearly |  | | Journal (issue) | | at congress 15 Gemstone and mineral mining in Pakistan 19 Madison Dialogue holds first colored gems...Sri Lanka and in the area surrounding the Mogok valley in Burma (Myanmar). More recent ļ¬nds of spinel...distribution. In this respect, the government of Pakistan has launched an initiative for the development...assess the gemstone mining situation in northern Pakistan as well as making recommendations for the improvement...Administrated Northern Areas of Pakistan. The trip was limited to the Gilgit, Skardu and Astore districts |  | | 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 (āEmeralds from Swat Valley. . . ,ā 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 Zambiaās largest source of emeralds |  | | 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...Hauerite, 2.1 cm, from Raddusa, Catania, Sicily. (7) Topaz, 2 cm, from Schneckenstein, Saxony, Germany. (8)...illustrated in Max Bauerās Precious Stones (1904): (9) Topaz, 2 cm, from Minas Gerais, Brazil. (10) Chrysoberyl...thumbnail mineral specimensā published in the Antelope Valley (California) Gem and Mineral Club bulletin, mentioned |  | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ā¢ Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ā¢ Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...FLUORITE Dalānegorsk Tetyuche, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia It...12:00 PM CTāā 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-DraĆ¢ |  | | Book | | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...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...The thin-tabular ilmenite crystals of the Torrniq Valley also form spherical aggregates ("closed roses") |  | | Journal (issue) | | accompanying me to remote areas of the world, from Pakistan to Mexico; for encouraging me (as a collector...Spessartine 129 Spodumene 113, 131, 143, 184 Sulfur 91 Topaz 39, 73, 87, 103, 152 Tourmaline 27, 67, 79, 97,...Frizington, England Stibnite from lchinokawa, Japan Blue topaz from Mursinka, Ural Mountains, Russia Proustite...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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bayley, W .S. 1904. The Menominee iron-bearing district of Michigan. U.S. Geological Survey monograph...left with the piece. No sooner were the purchasers gone than the first collector rushed in, decision made...of them the first year I went to sleep-away camp. Gone were the cards, comic books and other detritus of... Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com The Osceola District, located on the western slope of the Snake Range...1884, operated the placer deposit until 1910. The District is best known for a gold nugget discovered in |  | | 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...sapphire; tbe Colorado, Brazilian, and Siberian topaz; the amethyst, the garnet, the zircon, and a moonstone |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fundamentalists: The First Annual Basha Valley SK Trail Race A Fall buying trip to Pakistan, and assorted running tales...December 9, 2002 In recent years, every trip to Pakistan has been beset by problems, ranging from the Afghan...actu ally began there. The German Ambassador 10 Pakistan has an interest in minerals, and readily handed...two pieces, l saw only n vo more maJor pieces in Pakistan: a 2 112 " pink dodecahedron with aqua crystals...mineral in Spain after Carretona, Ciudad Rodrigo District. Salamanca Province, Spain I have reported in |
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