| | 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...19.6 cm high Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan P hoto by Jeff Scovil Collection | | | 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) | from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail & Jim Spann...4.3 cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman...Katlang, Mardan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo. Tanzanite...collected fluorescent minerals in the Karnes Uranium district near my ancestral home in south Texas. Over time...with cleavelandite, 9 cm, from Shengus, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Paul Bordovsky photo. Tourmaline, 11 | | | Book | )3CI 121-1 22 Vanadinite Pb5(VO,JiCI 123 Hydroxylherderite CaBe(PO,)(OH) 124-126 Lazulite MgAl2(PO,)z(OH)i...Matrix 15 cm (6 in.) across Fluorite Stak Nala, Gilgit, Pakistan Crystal 6 cm (2 % in.) across 69 70...across Columbite with Feldspar and Mica Rincon district, San Diego County, California Black crystal 3... Fluorapatitc with Muscovite and Albite Dusso, Gilgit, Pakistan Pink crystal 3 cm (11/s 1n.) across 119 ...Mibladen, Morocco 36 cm (14 in.) across 124 Hydroxylherderite Blue Ch1h,uahua Mine. San Diego County, California | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Be2AlO4. Twinned crystals from the Ratnapura district, Sri Lanka. Photograph of sample R100130 reproduced...Høgtuvaite Hsianghualite Hurlbutite Hyalotekite Hydroxylherderite Jeffreyite Joesmithite Khmaralite Leifite...Gadolinite-(Ce) 1850 Bastnäs mine, Skinnskatteberg District, Holtstam and Andersson (2007) Allen et al. (1996)...Harstigite 1825 Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Persberg district, Flink (1917) Jonsson (2004) Värmland, Swedena...Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden Grew et al. (1994) Hydroxylherderite 2670 BEP pegmatite, Bird River Greenstone | | | Journal (issue) | cm, on matrix, from Ghundao Hill, Mardan district, Pakistan. F. John Barlow collection; photo by Harold...Gaylord's Tennessee Minerals Gellani Enterprises - Pakistan Gem & M inerals of Dallas Gemini Minerals Genady...Enough . . . Inc. Hallelujah Mines Hammad Gems - Pakistan Hampel Mineraiogical Museum Hendricks, Pat M inerals...Runner, Bruce & Jo Russell / Zuhl Saeed Ur Rahman - Pakistan Sandman, The Schlichter, Ernie Minerals Schwarz...- Russia Sunshine M inerals Syed Trading Co. - Pakistan Syntaxis Sunnywood Collection, The Thom pson, | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | ened tabular hexagonal crystal from Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka. Photograph of sample R090019 reproduced...reported previously, volcanic rocks in the Eifel district, Germany (e.g., Schminke 2007, Lengauer et al...rocks no younger than 1050 Ma (Chimwala, Chipata district, Zambia, de Roever and Vrána 1985; Johnson et...5), some of which formed as recently as 7 Ma (Pakistan Himalaya, Laurs et al. 1998). Collision is ongoing...grani c pegma tes at Stak Nala, Nanga ParbatHaramosh Massif, northern Pakistan. Canadian Mineralogist | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | hvor noen ble dannet ganske nylig, 7 millioner (Pakistan, Himalaya, Laurs et al. 1998). 11 ellkjeden,...grani c pegma tes at Stak Nala, Nanga ParbatHaramosh Massif, northern Pakistan. Canadian Mineralogist...Ba,K)4(Ca,Y)2(B,Be)2(Si,B)2Si8O28F Be60 Hydroxylherderite CaBePO4(OH) Be61 Jeffreyite (Ca,Na)2(Be | | | Journal (issue) | SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2019 Articles The Golconda District, Minas Gerais, Brazil ..........................First Edition, 1903, pg 231, plate 44 Miask, Ilmen Mts., Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia 12.3 cm Zincolivenite...Cleavelandite N Chwaning I Mine, South Africa Stak Nala, Pakistan 4.4 x 3.6 x 2.9cm 10.0 x 6.0 x 3.6cm WE...volume 50, September–October, 2019 The Golconda District Minas Gerais, Brazil Carlos Cornejo1 Andrea Bartorelli2...finds at multi-year intervals, including fine hydroxylherderite specimens in the 1990s, beautiful blue, purple | | | Report (issue) | Schor! and microcline from Pakistan's world famous Gilgit area. The schorl is 4. 7 cm high. Photo Jeff Scovil;...Bronze-brown; streak: yellow-brown; luster: vit district Corinthia in Austria and Slovenia, dravite is...and Parafba, Brazil; Sahatany Valley pegmatite district in Madagascar; Nigeria; Namibia; Nuristan Valley...Valley, Afghanistan and the Malkhan district in Russia's Transbaikal region have been the source of many...terminations from Shigar Valley in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The crystal on the left is 2. 7 cm tall. Collection | | | Journal (issue) | ened tabular hexagonal crystal from Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka. Photograph of sample R090019 reproduced...reported previously, volcanic rocks in the Eifel district, Germany (e.g., Schminke 2007, Lengauer et al...rocks no younger than 1050 Ma (Chimwala, Chipata district, Zambia, de Roever and Vrána 1985; Johnson et...5), some of which formed as recently as 7 Ma (Pakistan Himalaya, Laurs et al. 1998). Collision is ongoing...grani c pegma tes at Stak Nala, Nanga ParbatHaramosh Massif, northern Pakistan. Canadian Mineralogist | | | Journal (issue) | hvor noen ble dannet ganske nylig, 7 millioner (Pakistan, Himalaya, Laurs et al. 1998). 11 ellkjeden,...grani c pegma tes at Stak Nala, Nanga ParbatHaramosh Massif, northern Pakistan. Canadian Mineralogist...Ba,K)4(Ca,Y)2(B,Be)2(Si,B)2Si8O28F Be60 Hydroxylherderite CaBePO4(OH) Be61 Jeffreyite (Ca,Na)2(Be | | | Journal (issue) | gold specimens to 3.8 cm, from the Santa Elena district. F. John Barlow collection; Wendell Wilson photo...England Wheal Duchy (Huel Dutchy) in the Callington District near the eastern border of Cornwall, was opened...crystal with epitactic spessartine, 3 cm, from Pakistan. Jeff Fast photo; J. S. White collection. would...crystal, 3.7 cm, from Locotal braccia, Alto Chapare District, Chapare Province, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia...3.5 cm, from Shengus, Skardu, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Jeff Scovil photo; J. S. White collection. scale | | | Journal (issue) | was found at several localities in the Cradock district. Geologically, the area consists of shales and...2-ounce nugget was found in 1854; (4) the Montagu district where a 2-ounce nugget was found; (5) at Prella...the original discovery of alluvial gold in the district in 1882. •' ' Figure II . (below) Edwin Bray...mineral occurrences which fringe the main commercial district have been studied in some detail. in order to...assess their genetic relationship to the main-district deposits (Heyl and West , 1982; Coveney and Goebel | | | Journal (issue) | was found at several localities in the Cradock district. Geologically, the area consists of shales and...2-ounce nugget was found in 1854; (4) the Montagu district where a 2-ounce nugget was found; (5) at Prella...the original discovery o f alluvial gold in the district in 1882. The M ineralogical Record, volum e 23...mineral occurrences which fringe the main commercial district have been studied in some detail, in order to...assess their genetic relationship to the main-district deposits (Heyl and West, 1982; Coveney and Goebel | | | Journal (issue) | Golden Topaz, 3.5 inches, from Katlang, Mardan District, Pakistan; Freilich Collection. OPENING SPREAD: Some...Collection (left to right): Topaz from Dassu, Pakistan; Amethyst from Guerrero, Mexico; Gold from California;...from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway; Powellite...specimen in many years: a fine matrix topaz from Pakistan. Joe was struck by the realization that he was...(clockwise fro m upper left): Spessartine from Pakistan; wulfenite from the San Francisco mine, Mexico; | | | Book (edition) | dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....abbreviations used are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is. (island), Vole. (volcano)...at Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...564(6) - Fraser R., all British Columbia, in Granite Mts., Wy1.084(7) - 1.052(9). Long-bladed, sometimes oming...in Placer and Monterey Actinolite, 70 mm, Rila Mts., Bulgaria, G Actinolite - byssolite, 50 mm, Valle | | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity Co., Michigan Bluff district, Placer Co., in AK, placers at Fairbanks, Iditarod...and quartz veins at Juneau. In Canada, Noranda district, PQ; Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, and Larder Lake...deposits, ON; Atlin and Caribou, BC; and Klondike district, YT. In Mexico, Altar and Magdalena, SON; Parral... gold is found on the eastern slope of the Ural Mts. for a distance of 500 miles, from Nizhne Tagilsk...localities, AZ; Calico district, San Bernadino Co., Cerro Gordo(*), Inyo Co., Bodie district, Mono Co., and other | | | Journal (issue) | “evenhandedness,” but it doesn’t work that way: when a land district has only six snowmobiles in the whole area, the...found by your club president asking the local district ranger for a “ policy statem ent” on mineral collecting...proactive in the regulatory process. Why should the district ranger (or anyone else) pay any attention to our...just ten collectors in your congress person’s district call up, as a group, that congressperson’s office...SHOW Simply fine & classic worldwide minerals Pakistan • Eastern Europe North & South Africa F r a n | | | Book (edition) | Colorado at the Pelican Dives mine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;...California; in sodalite-syenite in the Julianehaab district, Greenland; in the liparite lavas of the island...slate and metamorphosed dolomite in the Beiyun-Obo district, Inner Mongolia, China, associated with aegirine...Antrim County, Ireland; and in the Laacher See District, West Germany. SELECTED REFERENCE: Switzer, G |
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Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan