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Orthoclase from
Dassu, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Muscovite3 photos of Orthoclase associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Stilbite Subgroup3 photos of Orthoclase associated with Stilbite Subgroup at this locality.
Stellerite3 photos of Orthoclase associated with Stellerite at this locality.
Schorl2 photos of Orthoclase associated with Schorl at this locality.
Elbaite1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Elbaite at this locality.
Albite1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Albite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Quartz at this locality.
Topaz1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Topaz at this locality.
Smoky Quartz1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Fluorite1 photo of Orthoclase associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dassu, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:863014
Long-form Identifier:1:3:863014:8
GUID (UUID V4):e3b5168e-a9b2-4a3d-a49c-01f95871cc6f
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
7.7km (4.8 miles) Basha Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
11.8km (7.4 miles) Niaslo, Basha Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
23.9km (14.9 miles) Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
59.7km (37.1 miles) Lak-Khiang Glacier (Kunyang Lak Glacier), Hispar Glacier, Hispar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
63.2km (39.3 miles) Hispar Glacier, Hispar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Holt (1990) 6 Santa Teresa Mountains, Aravaipa district, Graham County, AZ, USA Santa Teresa Mountains...beryl Moore (2009); Ross (1925) 7 South Platte district, Buffalo Creek, Jefferson County, CO, USA Pikes...(1968); Kunz (1884); Pegau (1929) 10 Petaca district, Rio Arriba County, NM, USA Intrusive into metamorphic...(2009); Swanson and Veal (2010) 12 Middletown district, Middlesex County, CT, USA Intrusive into metamorphic... NYF Miarolitic and rarely NYF Rare-Element orthoclase, beryl, topaz, muscovite Cairncross and Bahmann
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)
porphyritic platform in the Fassa Valley and the Siusi Alp; druses of orthoclase and quartz with associated...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)
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)
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...crystals of quartz, fluorapatite, clinozoisite, orthoclase, titanite, zoisite and diopside. Thus it was
Journal (issue)
scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas... 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..._~__, Apatite on feldspar, 8.6 cm, from Bulachi, Pakistan. Under shortwave ultraviolet light (top right)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen...with crystals to 5 cm across; the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell County, where some muscovite crystals...specimens were many Schaller had collected in the Pala district, San Diego County, California. The assortment...struck a chord with me. Other mines in the Pala district that have produced musco- Downloaded by [National...deposit of Panasquiera, Covilhã, Castelo Branco district, Portugal, has yielded some nice examples of muscovite
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)
Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada for two summers, subleasing the Royal Peacock...specimens of titanite, epidote, albite, adularian orthoclase and fluorapatite crystals. Information on these...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
Journal (issue)
up in Lockenhaus, a town in the Oberpullendorf District of Burgenland, Austria. He immigrated to Australia...Epidote, 11.5 cm, from Alchuri, Shigar district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Gold, 2.3 cm, from the Kintore...Australia. Tourmaline, 13 cm, from Paprok, Kamdesh district, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Supplement to The Mineralogical...Trust Aquamarine, 10 cm, from Doi Ty, Quy Chau district, Nghe[≥ An, An Province, Vietnam. Copper with...Australia. Tourmaline, 10 cm, from Paprok, Kamdesh district, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Topaz, 7 cm, from the
Book (volume)
41 Aquamarine (with Schorl on Orthoclase) Shigar, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 5 Azurite (& Malachite) Morenci...Juchlistock, Grimsel Pass, Grimsel Area, Hasli Valley, Bern, Switzerland, 53 Tanzanite (with Quartz)...Tanzania, 52 Topaz (with Smoky Quartz) Dassu, Baltistan, Pakistan, 12 Tourmaline (on Cleavelandite) Malkhan...California, 60 Vayrynenite (on Quartz) Gilgit, Haramosh Mtns., Skardu, Pakistan, 69 Vivianite Rosia Poieni Mine
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...Eichholz’s translation, 1971) “Caria” is an ancient district in southwestern Asia Minor. The In­ dian stones...Gem and lithiumbearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California. California Department
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...5.6 cm tall Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit­ Baltistan, Pakistan John Rakovan collection...light) 8.6 cm tall Bulache, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Jonathan Allred col lection, Joe
Catalog/List
2 1 2 LAZULITE (7cm x 6cm x 4cm) Nooristan, Pakistan A single well-formed, royal blue lazulite crystal...(variety schorl) ON ALBITE (4cm x 4cm x 3cm) Gilgit, Pakistan As you can sec from the picture this is a...QUARTZ A FELDSPAR (6cm x 4cm X 2.5cm) Shigar, Skardu, Pakistan A lovely miniature combination specimen...crystallised species £80 12 GARNET (5cm x 2cm x 4cm) Shigar. Pakistan A dark olive green crystal ofgamet measuring...GARNET ON FELDSPAR (5cm x 4cm x 3cm) Shigar, Skardu, Pakistan Well-formed sharp lustrous deep red crystals
Journal (issue)
Aquamarine beryl, 10.5 cm, Braldu Valley, Skardu, Northem Areas, Pakistan ; Marc Countiss collection;...COLLECTION Schort on albite, 15 cm, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Joe Budd photo. Elbaite, 14.5 cm, Pederneira...photo. Mesolite with apophyllite, 14 cm, Pune district, Maharashtra, India. Joe Budd photo. Apophyllite...Apophyllite on stilbite, 9.5 cm, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, lndia. Joe Budd photo. Arsenopyrite with quartz...stibnite, 8.5 cm, Xionghuang Kuang mine, Wuyu district, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Ex Steve
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orange and brown. Associated minerals include orthoclase (variety adularia), clinozoisite, epidote, and...have come from the Uncle Billy Rogers mine, Hope Valley, Alpine County. For those into the lapidary arts...cm on edge have been found at Žulová, Jesenik district, Olomouc region, Czech Republic. Similar specimens...specimens have come from Černá Voda, Jesenik district, Olomouc region. Brown grossular to 1 cm on edge,...Hazlov (also noted as Haslau on old labels), Cheb district, Karlovy Vary region. Grossular is found as well-formed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
around the repeat axis) Monoclinic [gypsum, orthoclase] tabular or blocky only faces paired on opposite...wide and is from the König David mine, Gallenbach valley, Wittichen, Black Forest, Germany. Gregor Markl...Specimen is 10.9 cm high and is from Dassu, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Bill and Anne Cook specimen, Jeff...Arkenstone specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 22. Orthoclase—Monoclinic—(twinned crystal) 3 pinacoids and
Book
Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...whereas in the typical ilmenite-bearing paragenesis orthoclase is less common, zeolites are absent, and brookite...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)
West mine, Congo Republic. (7) Sodalite, Kokcha Valley, Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia...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...2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Mount Apatite district near Auburn, Maine. Harvard Mineralogical Museum
Journal (issue)
vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected in...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...Deposition of iron formations in the Lake Superior District ended abruptly 1850 million years ago, suspiciously
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
Book
Dr. G. Liittig, Erlangen Band 25 GEOL OGY OF PAKISTAN edited by / F. K. Bender and H. A. Raza 1995...BORNTR AEGER · BERLIN · STUTTGART GEOLO GY OF PAKISTAN edited by F .K. Bender and H.A. Raza by D....Developme nt Institute of Pakistan, 230, Nazimuddi n Road F-7 /4, Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr. D. BANNERT, Dr....of Pakistan, FF 2 Block 59, Seaview Township, Defence Housing Authority, Karachi-75500, Pakistan. Prof...University of the Punjab, New Campus, Lahore-54590, Pakistan. Ongoing small scale detachment tectonics within
 
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