 | | 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 |  | | Book | | surveyor ( B a d Shah Jan of the Survey of Pakistan), both from Pakistan, also joined the stafl. The scientific...Survey, M r . M . Aziztrllah of the Survey of Pakistan, and M r . Javed, a student at the University...Indus river, from Skardu as far west as the Stak valley, and the principal ridge of the Karakorum to the...and Gilgit and eastwards as far as Bagicha. The territory covered in 1955 lies between the Gilgit area...Chogo Lungma and the Sosbun glaciers, and the upper valley of the Hunxa river. The present volunze deals with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | constraints on the Main Karakorum Thrust, Baltistan, northern Pakistan T. ALLEN A N D C. P. CHAMBERLAIN Department...from rocks in the Kohistan-Ladakh island arc. In Baltistan, this suture has been reactivated by the late...deformed by subsequent southverging folding and by gneiss dome emplacement. However, decompression metamorphic...suture zone known as the Indus-Tsangpo Suture. In Pakistan, however, the Kohistan-Ladakh volcanic island...Kohistan-Ladakh island arc and the Asian plate (Fig. 1). In Baltistan (boxed area in Fig. 1) the Shyok Suture Zone has |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens is from the Dattaw mine, Mogok, Pyin-Oo-Lwin district, Mandalay Division. It consists of green crystals...in marble from the Koksha Valley, Badakhshan Province. In neighboring Pakistan very fine crystals of diopside...from Alchuri (sometimes spelled Alchori), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals in the collection are dark...between Alchuri and Shigar at Hashupa (sometimes spelled Hashupi), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals in...found at Khapalu (also spelled Khaplu), Ghangche district. Other Pakistani localities that have produced |  | | 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) | | 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: |  | | Report (chapter) | | Chalt green schist zone 5. Basic intrusives zone 6. Gilgit zone D. References 255 263 264 264 264 264 265...4 - -.~ 44k +~_+++ Peribatholitic plagioclase-gneiss ~+ - . . .. . .' . . .~ • .............~..~, ...~' +4- ~ZONE 5'~ granite 4-, + k ~ Falchan Gneiss c ~ Dumordo Fm c ~ Ganchen Fm " ". " . . '...Salkhala: Nanga Parbat- Haramosh migmatitic gneiss and granitic gneiss Faults. H- Hini, C- Chalt N - Nomal ...the western Hindu Kush. In the western Karakorum, Gilgit Agency, the basement is represented by Pre-Cambrian |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mine) and is a constituent of granite, aplite, gneiss, schist, and phyllites. Muscovite as the fine-grained...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gold in the Bagrote and Dainter streams, northern Pakistan: Implications for provenance and exploration Masroor...2016YFC0600106 The Bagrote and Dainter valleys in Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan, belonging to the Kohistan island arc...through glacier to the fluvial system. The Gilgit Baltistan province, dominated by dry temperate climate...glacio‐fluvial, microtexture and chemistry, North Pakistan, placer gold, provenance Geological Journal....gold grains and their Bagrote streams, Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan, with a view to trace the inclusions |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Karakorum Metamorphic complex (Dassu±Askole area, NE Pakistan): exhumation of mid-crustal HT±MP gneisses in...in the Karakorum Range (Shigar and Braldu valleys, North of Skardu, NE Pakistan), building on previous...and Askole domes, Fig. 1) in the Skardu area (NE Pakistan) and then to discuss the possible heat source...(8035-8060m) all rV iga lle ey va Indus y 35°30'N Shigar Bt -M 75°00'E Zone of Himalayan Mio-Pliocene...Jutial Darchan Hi s p -G rt StGr t Gl (7452m) Gilgit BT ld-G Early M2 granites and monzonites (Baltoro |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 8 (left). Anatase, 1.8-cm octahedral crystal on gneiss, 3 × 2 cm, from Monte Cervandone, Val Devero, Piedmont...Walking by a moraine at Mount Blanc in the Aosta Valley, Piedmont, they spotted a quartz crystal, about...from Chumar Bakhoor, Nagar, Hunza Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Bonisoli specimen 5727, Jeff Scovil...doubly terminated crystal, 16 × 7 cm, from the Pech district, Konar Province, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Bonisoli...albite, 8.0 × 5.5 cm, from Shigar Valley, Skardu, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Bonisoli specimen 5732 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Reviews—Aquamarine Mines in Baltistan. 233 Hence the "whole coal reserves of the Netherlands, probably...available at a later date. In the Buurse-Hengele district in the south-east of Overijssel, the coal was...of salt found both here and in the Winterswijk district suggest the possibility of finding both potash... R. V.—NOTE ON THE AQUAMARINE MINES OP DASO, BALTISTAN. By C. S. MIDDLEMISS and L. G. PAESHAD. Rec. Geol...located at Daso, on the Braldu River, Shigar Valley, Baltistan, Kashmir, and it is now being actively |  | | Report (chapter) | | Crystallines of the Stak valley, northeastern Nanga Parbat-Haramosh syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya Ugo Pognante...Crystallines of the Stak valley, northeastern Nanga Parbat-Haramosh syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya U G O P O G...(Stak and upper Turmik valleys, Pakistan) consist of kyanite-bearing gneiss with minor garnet-granulite and...pressure metamorphism, part of the HHC from northern Pakistan underwent very rapid cooling and exhumation. By...recorded by the HHC from regions located east of Pakistan (e.g. Nepal). These differences along strike in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | actually reached in three areas : (1) In the Peel district in the middle and north of Limburg coal was proved...immediately available. (2) In the Winterswijk district in East Gelderland 300,000,000 tons of coal exist...1017/S0016756800202756 Reviews—Aquamarine Mines in Baltistan. 233 Hence the "whole coal reserves of the Netherlands...available at a later date. In the Buurse-Hengele district in the south-east of Overijssel, the coal was...of salt found both here and in the Winterswijk district suggest the possibility of finding both potash |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Reviews—Aquamarine Mines in Baltistan. 233 Hence the "whole coal reserves of the Netherlands, probably...available at a later date. In the Buurse-Hengele district in the south-east of Overijssel, the coal was...of salt found both here and in the Winterswijk district suggest the possibility of finding both potash... R. V.—NOTE ON THE AQUAMARINE MINES OP DASO, BALTISTAN. By C. S. MIDDLEMISS and L. G. PAESHAD. Rec. Geol...located at Daso, on the Braldu River, Shigar Valley, Baltistan, Kashmir, and it is now being actively |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (chapter) | | over the Indian Plate on a series of imbricated gneiss sheets, the thrusts climbing up section in the...Crustal delamination, to produce the imbricated gneiss sheets, could not account for all the displacement...the large oblique-slip shear zone in the Hunza Valley, N of Kohistan. T h e W e s t e r n H i m a l...8Bi "L/~ / 25.3Bi FIG. 5. Detailed map of the Gilgit area showing published dates. Same sources as for...About 70% of the tonalites and diorites in the Gilgit area make up this undeformed late batholith (see |  | | 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) | | through 1891 in which he dissect~d limestone granite. gneiss marble. ;andstones and many other ornamental ~tones...1 .?). the fissureinclusions in the fibrolitic gneiss ofNew Rochelle. N.Y. (American Quarterly Microscopical...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | clinozoisite crystals 6 cm tall, from Hashupa, Pakistan. Both the large crystal and the smaller one have...Hashupa and at Alchuri, in the Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan (Blauwet 2006). • Good crystals...byssolite, and numerous other species in amphibolite gneiss at the Keystone trap-rock quarry, Cornog, Pennsylvania...niigataite for the type locality, in the Itoigawa-Ohmi district, Niigata Prefecture, in central Japan (Miyajima...in a sample of pumpellyite rock from the Wakasa district, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The host rock consisted |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | emerald mine, Ambalahosy Nord Commune, Mananjary District, Vatovavy Fitovinany Black-wall reaction zones...rocks occasionally pillowed) between migmatitic gneiss, talc-schist and lenses of chromite-bearing serpentinites...9.4 Irondro mine, Andonabe Commune, Mananjary District, Vatovavy Fitovinany Black-wall reaction zones...rocks occasionally pillowed) between migmatitic gneiss, talc-schist and lenses of chromite-bearing serpentinites... 2015.6.5 Kagem Emerald Mine, Kafubu Emerald District, Lufwanyama, Copperbelt Talc-chlorite ± actinolite |  | | Journal (issue) | | transparency • Buccellati design award • Aquamarine from Pakistan • Phenakite from the Urals • Freshwater pearls... In addition to aquamarine from Pakistan’s Shigar Valley and natural freshwater pearls from Texas, our...high-strain domain of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero district (figure 4) in the southern part of the São Francisco...greenstone belts SRS 7756000 Bação Complex Granite-gneiss complexes Syncline/anticline Ouro Preto DBS ...hematite surface (figure 8C), revealing a ridge-and-valley structure at the nanometer scale along three directions |  | | 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. 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