 | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | chondrodite, monticellite, clinohumite, wollastonite, grossular, vesuvianite, tremolite, scapolitegroup minerals...occurs in crystals to 5 cm, some associated with grossular. From the Tieshan ironcopper deposit, Huangshi...green-gray, short prismatic crystals associated with grossular. In Ho-kizawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, diopside occurs...granular green crystal aggregates associated with grossular and small, acicular crystals of natrolite. Diopside...specimens is from the Dattaw mine, Mogok, Pyin-Oo-Lwin district, Mandalay Division. It consists of green crystals |  | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . 513 by D. Blauwet Minerals from Alchuri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Famous Mineral Localities Alchuri Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals...deposits near the small village of Alchuri in the Shigar Valley, Pakistan, have produced attractive specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | vesuvianite locales, with a half-dozen in the Aosta Valley, over a dozen in the Piedmont, and four in Lombardy...excellent crystals of other species including grossular, titanite, meionite, actinolite, and scheelite...Figure 8. Vesuvianite crystal about 3 cm tall with grossular from Han Dan mine, China. Figure 6. Vesuvianite...crystals to about 1 cm long with calcite from Warsak, Pakistan. green (chromian) to pale greenish-yellow (ferroan)...of tan, blocky crystals as well as pink to red grossular (for which it is presently more famous). Both |  | | Report (issue) | | riesige Titanite ab S. 77 von Stefan Weiß Pakistan: "Alpine" Sphene, Anatas & Brookit vom Feinsten...Distrikt, Provinz Belutschistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan . Sammlung Anton Watzl, Foto: Albert Russ Chem...Quarzstufe mit Anatasen aus Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan , The Wildfang Collection . Foto: Fabian Wildfang...abgeflachten Spitzen aus Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan, Sammlung Anton Watzl, Foto: Albert Russ 6 mm...11 cm hoher Titanit aus Capelinha, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brasilien. Sammlung & Foto Mardani |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Institution Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu GROSSULAR Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité...University] at 03:53 04 October 2014 Figure 1. Grossular, 7 × 8 cm, from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Les...Québec, Canada. The stepped-growth modification of grossular dodecahedra is commonly observed on Jeffrey mine...devoted to grossular, a personal favorite. The chemical formula of grossular is Ca3Al2Si3O12. Grossular is an...crystal faces may be striated. Other habits of grossular include massive, compact, or granular. Visitors |  | | Journal (issue) | | Aquamarine beryl, 10.5 cm, Braldu Valley, Skardu, Northem Areas, Pakistan ; Marc Countiss collection; Joe...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 (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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Magnetový vrch pri Tisovci (Slovenská republika) Grossular and vesuvianite in the brecciated recrystallized...Garnets have an oscillatory zoning with dominant grossular component in the range of 70 - 75 mol. % and 88...vesuvianite. Grossular and vesuvianite have likely formed during contact metamorphism. Key words: grossular, vesuvianite...structure of Ti-rich vesuvianite from Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Pakistan. Acta Cryst B72: 744-752 Adam Ľ, Pták...Ragnarsdottir K V, Wood B J (1995) On the origin of zoned grossular-andradite garnets in hydrothermal systems. Eur |  | Panikorovskii, Taras L., Chukanov, Nikita V., Aksenov, Sergey M., Mazur, Anton S., Avdontseva, Evgenia Yu, Shilovskikh, Vladimir V., Krivovichev, Sergey V. (2017) Alumovesuvianite, Ca19Al(Al,Mg)12Si18O69(OH)9, a new vesuvianite-group member from the Jeffrey mine, asbestos, Estrie region, Québec, Canada. Mineralogy and Petrology, 111 (6) 833-842 doi:10.1007/s00710-017-0495-1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | granular diopside. Associated minerals are diopside, grossular and prehnite. Single crystals of alumovesuvianite...minerals has a modular character. One-dimensional grossular-type modules (Allen and Burnham 1992) running...main minerals of the rodingite are diopside, grossular, alumovesuvianite and prehnite. General appearance...structure of Ti-rich vesuvianite from Alchuri, Shigar valley, Pakistan. Acta Crystallogr B72:744–752 Allen |  | Panikorovskii, T. L., Shilovskikh, V. V., Avdontseva, E. Y. u., Zolotarev, A. A., Karpenko, V. Y. u., Mazur, A. S., Yakovenchuk, V. N., Bazai, A. V., Krivovichev, S. V., Pekov, I. V. (2017) Magnesiovesuvianite, Ca19Mg(Al,Mg)12Si18O69(OH)9, a new vesuvianite-group mineral. Journal of GEOsciences, 62 (1) 25-36 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fibre-optic effect. Associated minerals are calcite, grossular–andradite and clinochlore. Single crystals of...along the c axis (grossular module highlighted by white circle). b – The grossular module in the vesuvianite...may be considered as containing one-dimensional grossular modules running along the fourfold axis (Allen...Single crystal X-ray and EXAFS investigations by Valley et al. (1985) and Ohkawa et al. (1992) demonstrated...Associated minerals are calcite, garnet of the grossular–andradite series and clinochlore. The new mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gray and Hungry: An Early Mineral Buying Trip to Pakistan (Part I) Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals International...(Continues on page 3) ----2 Mineral Buying in Pakistan (Continued from page 1) And this is where I come...journey up the rugged Karakoram Highway (KKH) in Pakistan with more mental baggage than one should normally...season in the mountains. It is Ramadan to boot.( In Pakistan and Afghanistan they spell and pronounce it Rama=a11with...then sleep hard on the early morning jaunt to Pakistan. The 1st ofNo,·ember da,vned clear and cool, a |  | | Journal (issue) | | Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations, tungstenite...also as cuhcdral crystals over IO cm on edge; grossular in brown crystals up to 4 cm in diameter; phlogopitc...of the Thomas Vein, Central Kentucky Fluorspar District 13-7: 1.6-8; Minerals near Tateville. Pulaski...13-10: 1,6-8 Greenockite Czech Republic 13-3:1,4,5 Grossular Mexico, Coahuila 13-11: 1,8 Gypsum Mexico 13-6:...13-2: 1.2,6-8; Quebec, Black Lake Mine. Thetford: grossular, 13-9:1.6-9; Mom St. Hilaire: aegirinc. analcime |  | Moiseev, Mikhail M., Panikorovskii, Taras L., Aksenov, Sergey M., Mazur, Anton S., Mikhailova, Julia A., Yakovenchuk, Victor N., Bazai, Ayya V., Ivanyuk, Gregory Yu., Agakhanov, Atali A., Shilovskikh, Vladimir V., Pekov, Igor V., Kasatkin, Anatoly V., Rusakov, Vyacheslav S., Yapaskurt, Vasiliy O., Karpenko, Vladimir Yu., Krivovichev, Sergey V. (2020) Insights into crystal chemistry of the vesuvianite-group: manaevite-(Ce), a new mineral with complex mechanisms of its hydration. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 47 (3) doi:10.1007/s00269-020-01086-7 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystal structure. They contain one-dimensional grossular modules running parallel to the fourfold axis...magnesiohastingsite–pargasite series amphibole, andradite–grossular garnet, vesuvianite, glagolevite, and calcite...hydroxyl groups corresponds to the presence of grossular-type rods in the structure (Allen and Burnham...the hydroxyl groups; Atom arrangement at the grossular module of vesuvianite structure (c) route of incorporation...structure of Ti-rich vesuvianite from Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Pakistan. Acta Crystallogr Sect B Struct Sci |  | | Journal (issue) | | Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...Number Three Articles The Lonavala Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India . . . . . . . . . . . . ....his two brothers on a remote farm in the Mallee district of western Victoria, Australia. His tertiary education...Ghat (about 15 km east of Karad, in the Satara District). The presence of pentagonite in India was not...GRAP Y BIRCH, W. (1977) Cavansite from the Poonah district, India. Mineralogical Record, , 61–62. FRANK, |  | Panikorovskii, Taras L., Mazur, Anton S., Bazai, Ayya V., Shilovskikh, Vladimir V., Galuskin, Evgeny V., Chukanov, Nikita V., Rusakov, Vyacheslav S., Zhukov, Yurii M., Avdontseva, Evgenia Yu., Aksenov, Sergey M., Krivovichev, Sergey V. (2017) X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic study of wiluite: implications for the vesuvianite-group nomenclature. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 44 (8) 577-593 doi:10.1007/s00269-017-0885-2 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | after gehlenite, as well as intergrowths with grossular. The {001} pinacoid has etching pits and furrows...diopside (fassaite), fluorapatite, goethite, pyrite, grossular, apatite, wollastonite and perovskite (latter... 2002) 13 Phys Chem Minerals Fig. 1 The grossular (Grs) intergrowths, montmorillonite (Mnt) pseudomorfs...inclusions in the Ti-enriched grossular). The intergrowths of zonal grossular also contain small grains (10–30...prismatic gaps inside wiluite crystal; c Ti-enriched grossular (Grs) inclusions contain a cancrinite-like (Ccn) |  | Panikorovskii, Taras, Chukanov, Nikita, Rusakov, Vyacheslav, Shilovskikh, Vladimir, Mazur, Anton, Balassone, Giuseppina, Ivanyuk, Gregory, Krivovichev, Sergey (2017) Vesuvianite from the Somma-Vesuvius Complex: New Data and Revised Formula. Minerals, 7 (12) 248 doi:10.3390/min7120248 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | phlogopite, clinoamphibole, garnet (mainly of the grossular-andradite series), forsterite, and humite-group... sanidinite ejecta found at the San Sebastiano valley at Vesuvius in association with pyrochlore, nepheline...ferrohornblende, phlogopite and at the San Sebastiano valley minerals, at Vesuvius in association with pyrochlore...in in association association with with grossular grossular and clinozoisite or as a monomineralic aggregate...(1)associated associatedwith with grossular (2), and clinozoisite grossular (2), and clinozoisite (3),(3) |  | | 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) | | Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...fluorite from an exceptional find at Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Kosnarite was later found in Brazil in the Jenipapo district. Kosnar assembled an extensive suite of some of...Fluorite r Exceptional New Find at Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan Roberto Appiani Via A. Mantegna, 1 I-20058 Villasanta...near a side valley of the Hunza River Valley in the Nagar district, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Although |  | | Journal (issue) | | Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...Mineralogy of the Spring Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number...and 1909, the mines of the Last Chance mining district produced significant quantities of copper and...had been used as its base! The few small orange grossular crystals on one side seem characteristic of material...which belies its remarkable contents. Figure 41. Grossular to 6 mm and diopside to 1.5 cm from Val d’Ala |  | | Journal (issue) | | Oregon Agate and Mineral Society and the Tualatin Valley Gem Club, and a member of the Pacific Northwest...Vuonnemite was first described from the Vuonnemi River valley, Khibina massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia as a new...had just two thumbnails of a lovely, bicolored grossular from the Jeffrey quarry, Quebec; they are from...handful of such thumbnails. Absolutely transparent grossular dodeca hedrons to 5 mm are pinkish orange in...probably rarest of all moods of Jeffrey mine grossular, should any more ever come to light. On now to |  | | Journal (issue) | | gold specimens to 3.8 cm, from the Santa Elena district. F. John Barlow collection; Wendell Wilson photo...Asbestos produced wonderful specimens of orange grossular (“hessonite”) garnets and some of the best prehnite...England Wheal Duchy (Huel Dutchy) in the Callington District near the eastern border of Cornwall, was opened...mimic the morphology of claudetite from Imperial Valley, California as illustrated by Palache (1934), shown...crystal with epitactic spessartine, 3 cm, from Pakistan. Jeff Fast photo; J. S. White collection. would |  | Kozáková, Petra, Miglierini, Marcel, Čaplovičová, Mária, Škoda, Radek, Bačík, Peter (2022) Structural Breakdown of Natural Epidote and Clinozoisite in High-T and Low-P Conditions and Characterization of Its Products. Minerals, 12 (2) 238 doi:10.3390/min12020238 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals were from Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Baluchistan, Pakistan (CP). Samples were...Epidote, Czech Republic (Sobotín) Clinozoisite, Pakistan (Baluchistan) ES-0 ES-9 ES-10 ES-11 ES-12 CP-0...Parbat, India, where this association replaces grossular and quartz [60]. Associations with clinopyroxene |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA. The district is famous for its wide range of more than 250...geological context closely resembling that in the Hunza Valley, Kashmir. Although only relatively low grade stones...present or not. Comparison with ruby from the Hunza Valley The corundum-muscovite association common at several...G. Neumeier, G. Staebler and T. Wilson (eds), Pakistan: Minerals, Mountains and Majesty. Lapis International...the main sources are Brazil, Russia, China and Pakistan. Of these, Brazil produces the finest stones. |  | | Journal (issue) | | demonstrate the trichroism; from Merelani, Umba Valley, Tanzania. F. John Barlow collection; photo by...deposits of the Antelope (Majuba Hill) mining district, Pershing County, Nevada. M.S. thesis, University...face of the range bordering the upper Salmon River Valley. These faults and a vertical joint system, com...Along w ith the usual pegm atite m inerals from Pakistan we carry som e of the harder to find specim ens:...91764) was yellow beryl crystals from near Skardu, Pakistan. The crystals are up to 15 cm in length and a |
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Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan