 | | 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 (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...government rest house in Dassu, on the Braldu River in Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan. With the road to...to Chutron in the Basha Valley blocked because of road construction, we were forced to change from that...problematic. Garnet on albite is from Seydar, Ho Nala, Pakistan. D. Blauwet photo. We, my jeep driver, Shaj i |  | | 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... and Kandara (2007) 19 Shigar-Braldu valleys, Gilgit-Balkistan, Pakistan Intrusive into metamorphic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Karakorum Metamorphic complex (Dassu±Askole area, NE Pakistan): exhumation of mid-crustal HT±MP gneisses...in the Karakorum Range (Shigar and Braldu valleys, North of Skardu, NE Pakistan), building on previous...domal structures (Dassu and Askole domes, Fig. 1) in the Skardu area (NE Pakistan) and then to discuss...rm ik M M T Zone of 8000 m peaks Gl . Baltoro Braldu Ky St-Grt K2 (8611m) Broad Peak (8051m) Gasherbrum...(8035-8060m) all rV iga lle ey va Indus y 35°30'N Shigar Bt -M 75°00'E Zone of Himalayan Mio-Pliocene |  | Garzanti, Eduardo, Vezzoli, Giovanni, Andò, Sergio, Paparella, Paolo, Clift, Peter D. (2005) Petrology of Indus River sands: a key to interpret erosion history of the Western Himalayan Syntaxis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 229 (3) 287-302 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.11.008 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and energy for the rapidly growing population of Pakistan. Nevertheless, Indus River sands as far as the...changes repeatedly and markedly in Ladakh and Baltistan, indicating overwhelming sediment flux from each...500F4700 t/km2 year and 4.5F1.7 mm/year for the Braldu catchment) and Nanga Parbat Massif (8100F3500 t/km2...both sides of the Tethyan suture [4–6]. Northern Pakistan thus represents a superb natural laboratory in...the Indus River and its major tributaries across Pakistan in February 2001. Bedload samples from mountain |  | | 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) | | 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) | | page 113. Inside front cover: (left colurnn) Apatite-Jonathan Allred collection, page 17; Rhodochrosite-Rick...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 |  | | 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) | | 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...chrysoberyl; petalite; pollucite; tantalite; cassiterite; apatite, monazite, and a wide variety of other minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kashmir": Aquamarinschatz aus dem Karakorum-Gebirge, Pakistan s. Daniel Trinchillo und Federico Pezzotta 12...Tessinerspitzen - auch einige plattige bis tafelige Apatite (flachenreich glitzernd , bis ~2 cm) aus einem...Kashmir": Aquamarinschatz aus dem Karakorum, Pakistan von Daniel Trinchillo. Mitarbeit: Federico Pezzotta...och in den Gebirgsziigen der Shigarta1-Region in Pakistan durchstol3en Hunderte von Abbaustollen steile...cm hohe Stufe aus dem Skardu District im Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan. Stufe von Fine fv1inerals International |  | | 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...collection, with some having intergrown schorl and apatite inclusions. Fine examples of the green chromian...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 |  | | Catalog/List | | Schorl and Quartz Shengus, Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan 7.6 cm tall x 15.2 cm wide Ex-collection...with Spessartine Dassu Mine, Shigar Valley, Skardu Dist., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan 25.4 cm tall x 40...on Quartz Pulsifer Quarry, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA 3 |  | | Report (issue) | | No. 17: Apatite The Great Pretender ISBN: 978-0-9836323-3-7 Publisher Lithographie, Ltd. Denver, Colorado...Cover Apatite on muscovite, 6.4 cm tall Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza-Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Brent...collection, Jeff Scovil photo Title (facing) Page Apatite rough (3.7 cm tall) and cut (24.61 carats) Cerro...collection, Jeff Scovil photo Page 2 Plate 81 "Apatite" from Reinhard Brauns' (1912) The Mineral Kingdom...supported publication of Apatite-The Great Pretender. Plate 81 "Apatite" from Reinhard Brauns' (1912) |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | PALIN, R. M., SEARLE, M. P., WATERS, D. J., HORSTWOOD, M. S. A., PARRISH, R.R. (2012) Combined thermobarometry and geochronology of peraluminous metapelites from the Karakoram metamorphic complex, North Pakistan; New insight into the tectonothermal evolution of the Baltoro and Hunza Valley regions. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 30 (8) 793-820 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2012.00999.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | North Pakistan; New insight into the tectonothermal evolution of the Baltoro and Hunza Valley regions...regions of the Karakoram metamorphic complex, North Pakistan, has produced new insights into the P–T–t evolution...events in the tectonothermal evolution of the Hunza Valley have been documented; an andalusite-grade contact...magmatic over-accretion. Key words: Baltoro; Hunza Valley; Karakoram metamorphic complex; MnNCKFMASHTO; pseudosection...particular, some metapelitic units of the Hunza Valley retain a record of extended prograde metamorphism |  | Mahar, Munazzam Ali, Mahéo, Gweltaz, Goodell, Philip C., Pavlis, Terry L. (2014) Age and origin of post collision Baltoro granites, south Karakoram, North Pakistan: Insights from in-situ U–Pb, Hf and oxygen isotopic record of zircons. Lithos, 205. 341-358 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2014.07.014 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collision Baltoro granites, south Karakoram, North Pakistan: Insights from in-situ U–Pb, Hf and oxygen isotopic...This plutonic body outcrops in south Karakorum (Pakistan), 342 M.A. Mahar et al. / Lithos 205 (2014)...investigate the involvement of mantle-derived magmas (Valley et al., 2005) in granite formation (Appleby, 2008;...eastern part of Karakoram batholith (i.e., Nubra Valley and Shyok suture zones; Reichardt et al., 2010)...traversing west to east along Braldu River–Baltoro glacier from Dumordul–Braldu confluence (35°41′N, 75°58′E) |  | | Book (volume) | | Mts., Brandberg Area, Erongo Region, Namibia, 67 Apatite (on Cookeite) Pulsifer Quarry, Auburn, Maine, 40...Aquamarine (with Schorl on Orthoclase) Shigar, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 5 Azurite (& Malachite) Morenci Mine...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 |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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...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) | | 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 |
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