 | | 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...Credits Front: Beryl (variety aquamarine); 19.6 cm high Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Northern Areas |  | | Journal (issue) | | from the C en ten n ia l Eureka m in e, T intic district, Juab C ounty, U ta h ..........................end o f the Wallapai Mining District. The major mining centers of the district included Cerbat, Chloride...is gener ally at a stand-still throughout the district. The town of Cerbat played a lively role in the...the Cerbat M ountains and the Wallapai Mining District is extremely complex and beyond the scope of this...mine. DINGS, M. G. (1951) The Wallapai mining district, Cerbat Moun tains, Mohave County, Arizona. U |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | variety sericite replaces feldspars, spodumene, beryl, topaz, and tourmalines in pegmatites. Muscovite...8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen...growth, are 2–3 cm across, and are associated with beryl, albite, and quartz. Plumose muscovite has been...rosettelike habit. Associated minerals include beryl, albite, fluorapatite, and quartz. In nearby New...associated minerals include albite, fluorapatite, beryl, and quartz, to name but a few. Also in Grafton |  | | 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...and albite, 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen collection, Scovil photo...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) | | 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... May 2004 Mineral News 3---- Mineral Buying in Pakistan (Continued from page 1) Local people set to work...stalled negotiation is typical in South Asia and in Pakistan is called "tupki". Only it is usually my friend...Peshawar. I continued my journey with stops in Sassi and Shengus and they yielded what seems to have |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | were combined under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey 168 PRODUCTION AND MARKETS...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...ultimately decided in eBay’s favor when the U.S. District Court of New York determined that the burden of... Inc., United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Case No. 08-11261, www.bankruptcylitigationblog |  | | Report (issue) | | extraLapis English No. 2: Emerald The Most Valuable Beryl The Most Precious Gemstone Publisher Lapis International...ISBN 3-921656-58-3 Emerald The Most Valuable Beryl; the Most Precious Gemstone ------------ extraLapis... USA About Emeralds Emeralds· of the World Beryl and Emerald: Words from India ......4 A brief etymology...Mineralogically a Beryl ........10 Composition, structure, crystal habit, green beryl and trapiche emerald... Pliny: ''The Most Beautiful Green!'' Asia: Pakistan, Afghanistan and India .......6 0 Old Mine Emeralds |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bedste styk- S Brookitt, Kharan, Baluchistan, Pakistan. malt, anstændigt mineral, Hydroxylherderit, boykottes...selvsagt fått sin plass her. Afganitt, Badchstan, Pakistan. En klassiker: Smaragd i matriks fra Habachtal...Østerrike Clinozoisitt, Alchuri, Shigardalen, Pakistan. stykker gråligt grønne Hydroxylherderit med skinnende...blok-agtige krystaller til 3 cm på matrix fra Sassi (Haromosh, Pakistan) var et spændende nyfund i harmoni med...Lino Casserini havde et lille parti interessante Beryl var. Smaragd fra Cosquez, Colombia. Skarpe krystaller |  | | 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...(Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning in the early...testing to be hematite. Zagi [Zegi] Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings...to 6 cm (2005: 120). Los Remedios mine, Taxco district, Taxco, Guerrero. Ilvaite occurs in the wallrock |  | | 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...days crossing Shahi-Salim Mountains to arrive in Pakistan at Garam Chisma, Chitral Valley. I bought an extraordinary...Karak oram Highway (or a stretch from the Hazara District all the way to Cbilas. an area that takes four...to cross. They also took control of Malak.and District, and Dajuar Agency, and massed. and the n sent |  | | Journal (issue) | | localities: Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Localities Alchuri Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals International...small village of Alchuri in the Shigar Valley, Pakistan, have produced attractive specimens of zoisite...article. INTRODUCTION The Raja Bazaar, Rawalpindi, Pakistan: A hot June night, streets teeming and pulsing...the previous summer’s religious altercation in Gilgit had again been inflamed by an assassination of |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | some dealers who had recently returned from the Pakistan trading area to see if they would lend us Afghan...to learn later that rt was actually a colorless beryl that had been hollowed out and filled with a green...been found in the southern portion of the Sorobi district, in Kabul Province. The topography of the region...Himalayas, which stretch eastward across northern Pakistan and India. The Hindu Kush range is one of the...and the adjacent Karakoram range in neighboring Pakistan have been the sites of spectacular finds of gemstones |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | latecomers in the geologic record: the oldest known is beryl in pegmatites associated with the Sinceni pluton...appearance of the most abundant Be minerals, such as beryl and phenakite, early in the history of Be mineralization...complexes, supercontinent cycle, crystal structure, beryl Introduction Minerals are conventionally thought... Be2AlO4. Twinned crystals from the Ratnapura district, Sri Lanka. Photograph of sample R100130 reproduced...necessary for the more common Be minerals, notably beryl, to appear, for example, 70 ppm in granitic pegmatites |  | | Report (volume) | | evolution of the North Karakoram cover, North Pakistan Zi Gaetan, 39 M., JADouL, F., Erpa, E. & Garzanti...granitoid structure of the Hunza Karakoram, north Pakistan TreLoar, magmatism P.J. & Izatr, C.N. Tectonics...West Pakistan 89 Aumep, Z. Leucocratic rocks from the Bela ophiolite, Khuzdar district, Pakistan Arir...zone of Pakistan Jan, M.Q., Kuan, North Pakistan Kuan, M.A., JAN, B.L. Evolution Pakistan: temporal...reconstruction of the Dir Group: within Kohistan, N. Pakistan Haynes, J.R. & Rex, D.C. evidence for magmatic |  | Spránitz, T., Józsa, S., Kovács, Z., Váczi, B., Török, K. (2018) Magmatic and metamorphic evolution of tourmaline-rich rocks of the Sopron area, Eastern Alps. Journal of GEOsciences, 63 (2) 175-191 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and white mica. In smaller amounts K-feldspar, beryl, Mg-rich chlorite, kyanite, lazulite, florencite...with a significant amount of primary tourmaline–beryl assemblage indicates a fluid-rich, B–Be-bearing...quartzites and leucophyllites (Lelkes-Felvári and Sassi 1983; Kisházi and Ivancsics 1987a; Török 1996)....spectroscopy was used to identify special mineral phases (beryl and lazulite) in two samples. The analyses were...(PPL); c – Euhedral albite with quartz (XPL); d – Beryl, albite and K-feldspar with perthitic lamellae (Kfs |  | | Journal (issue) | | Chundao Hill, Pakistan, andthethe otheris is nearthethehistoric historic in in Pakistan, and other near...the collections of miners and traders. Silicate beryl: diopside epidote garnet: Non-silicate aquamarine...give very precise ages for these rocks (Kroner and Sassi, 1996). The Palaeoproterozoic Qabri Bahar Complex...(1984). Age d a ta from Sassi ei al. (1989) (S in tabl e) and Kron er and Sassi (1996) (K&S in tabl e)...about 700 Ma ago (Ferrara et al, 1987; Kroner and Sassi, 1996). Although most of the gemstones are recovered |  | | Report (issue) | | His descriptions include the first mention of beryl in the tourmaline-bearing pegmatites. German mineralogist...collection are the four large pieces dotted with pink beryl, tourmaline of various 10 colors, rare pollucite...hotel is located in the heart of the pegmatite district in the village of Cavoli, which boasts a wonderful...Capo Bianco mine Capo Calamita mine Oinevro mine Sassi Neri mine Capo Bianco Argonauts' aplite outcrop...minerals and by the presence of schorl and blue beryl. They are locally very common and occur in both |  | | 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....garnet cameo swan from the excavations at Taxila, Pakistan (Victoria and Albert Museum, London). During the...the modem village of Donduran in the Yenipazar district of the city of Aydin in the Turkish Province of |  | | Journal (issue) | | in the Gold Hill mining district, previously called the Clifton mining district, which has been mined for...11 are a well-graded gravel road. HISTORY The district was discovered in about 1857 when travel to California...(El-Shatoury and Whelan, 1970). Over 50 mines in the district were developed to some extent, but less than half...ore (Nolan, 1935). Initial production from the district was probably made during the period 1871-72 with...except 1920 and 1944. More than 50% of the 1917 district ore tonnage was produced from the Gold Hill mine |  | Konzett, Jürgen, Schneider, Tobias, Nedyalkova, Latina, Hauzenberger, Christoph, Melcher, Frank, Gerdes, Axel, Whitehouse, Martin (2018) Anatectic Granitic Pegmatites from the Eastern Alps: A Case of Variable Rare-Metal Enrichment During High-Grade Regional Metamorphism – I: Mineral Assemblages, Geochemical Characteristics, and Emplacement Ages. The Canadian Mineralogist, 56 (4) 555-602 doi:10.3749/canmin.1800008 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz-K-feldspar-plagioclase-muscovite) together with minor beryl, garnet, or tourmaline. In addition, accessory phase...pegmatites have staurolite as inclusions in large beryl crystals and/or as a groundmass phase. Muscovite...pegmatites contain spodumene 6 beryl 6 Nb-Ta-Sn oxides (Angel & Meixner 1953, Sassi 1969, Prohaska 1981, Koller...exposed over an area of ~15 3 2 km and described by Sassi (1969). The pegmatites described so far from this...K-feldspar, garnet, and beryl. Three out of 53 pegmatites surveyed by Sassi (1969) contain spodumene |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1081, Mogadishu (Rep. Dem. Somalia), Prof. F. B. SAssI, Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology, University...AZZ~,ROLI& PASSERINI(1965), DA~IELS (1965), BAxOS& SASSI(1980). S t r a t i g r a p h y - - From the lithostratigraphical...metamorphism. We agree with the view (IBt~AHIM• SASSI, 1977) that the "basal" character of the conglomerates...close to 88 ~ should be assigned to it (IBRAHIM & SassI, 1979). Otherwise, if the crystallization of andalusite...geological data as outlined above and by IBRAmM& SASSI(1977): a) Existence of an unconformity between the |  | | Journal (issue) | | P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica .................................35-41. FERGUSON, H. G. (1921) The Round Mountain district, Nevada. In Contributions to economic geology...Alto Benedito pegmatite was intensively mined for beryl and tantalite during World War II, and has been...Na)Al(P04)(F,OH) Autunite Ca(U 02)2(P 0 4)2-1012H20 Beryl Be3Al2SLO,o Crandallite (Ca,Sr)Al3(P 0 4)2(0H...Johannesburg 2000, South Africa The copper mining district o f Messina in the northern Transvaal Province |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | carrying microcline, oligoclase, cleavelandite, beryl, and red to yellow garnets. Recently the locality...hitherto sole Li-rich pegmatite in the Evje-Iveland district. A thorough search among the micas from the c1eavelandite...c1eavelandite bearing pegmatites in the Evje-Iveland district may reveal more Li-rich pegmatites. In Norway...NEIVA, A. M. R., RADOSLOVICH, E. W., ROBERT, J.-L., SASSI, F. P., TAKEDA, H., WEISS, Z. & WONES, D. R. (1998): |
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Sassi, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan