| | 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) | 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 | | | Report (issue) | No. 14: Topaz Perfect Cleavage ISBN 978-0-9790998-9-2 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...United States of America Photo Credits Cover: Topaz, 3.5 cm tall Capao Mine, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais...Sigerman collection Robert Weldon photo Above: Topaz, 5.5 cm tall El Chalten, Santa Cruz, Argentina Scott...brooch/pendant is set with topaz from three different localities. Two Brazilian "Imperial" topaz gems make up the...(weighing a total of 2.52 carats) from Katlang, Pakistan, adorn the upper wings, with a matched pair of | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | feldspar, and quartz in the former, and bixbyite, topaz, sanidine, and pseudobrookite in the latter. Because...United States are from pegmatites of the Amelia district, Amelia County, Virginia (Sinkankas 1959, 1997)...developed crystals to 1 cm associated with minor topaz and sanidine in the lithophysae of rhyolite exposed...in the Brown Derby pegmatite in the Ohio Creek district, Gunnison County. Roberts and Rapp (1965) describe...John Betts photo. (Northrop 1959). In the Petaca district it is known in crystalline aggregates to 60 cm | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | sericite replaces feldspars, spodumene, beryl, topaz, and tourmalines in pegmatites. Muscovite itself...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 (issue) | from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail & Jim Spann...Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Topaz, 2.6 cm, from Katlang, Mardan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Jeff Starr...collected fluorescent minerals in the Karnes Uranium district near my ancestral home in south Texas. Over time...Aquamarine with cleavelandite, 9 cm, from Shengus, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Paul Bordovsky photo. Tourmaline | | | Catalog/List | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...5:00 PM ET LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Thursday...grow. 73001 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) Looking almost like...com/6150 73002 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) For those that have...750 73003 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) As if Momeik doesn’t | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | of eosphorite from Chamachhu (Skardu District, Baltistan, Pakistan) 2+ [(Mn2+ 0.94Fe 0.06Al0.01)Σ1.01AlPO4(OH1...of Chamachhu (Changmachhu), Skardu district, Baltistan, Pakistan, was used for this study. The sample...of Chamachhu, 10 km east of Shengus, along the Indus River on the Gilgit-Skardu road (Blauwet et al....by muscovite, lepidolite, spessartine, elbaite, topaz, beryl (gem aquamarine and morganite), pollucite...the mineral localities of the Northern Areas, Pakistan. Mineralogical Record, 28, 183–200. Busing, W | | | 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...I continued my journey with stops in Sassi and Shengus and they yielded what seems to have been typical | | | Journal (issue) | tourmaline, danburite, forsterite, fluorapatite, topaz, quartz and zircon, plus rare species like hibonite...some of the world’s best crystals of red spinel, topaz, aquamarine, peridot, zircon, fluorapatite and enstatite...Mogok belongs to Mogok Township, in Pyin-U-Lwin District, in Mandalay Division, which borders Sagaing Division...January–February, 2022 Figure 3. The Ruby Mining District in Burma around Mogok, as surveyed by R. Gordon...yielded fine specimens of hambergite, pollucite, topaz, quartz, aquamarine beryl and lepidolite (Hla Kyi | | | 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...Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan John Rakovan collection, Jeff Scovil...light) 8.6 cm tall Bulache, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Jonathan Allred col lection, Joe | | | Book (volume) | (on Muscovite) Shigar Valley, Skardu, N. Areas, Pakistan, 54 Azurite (on Malachite) Liu Feng Shan Mine...Muscovite) Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza River Valley, Pakistan, 58 Grube Beihilfe, Freiberg-Halsbrucke, Saxony...PCA Intrepid Potash Mine, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 8 Topaz Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais...Dist., Tanzania, 50 Vayrynenite Gilgit, Haramosh Mtns., Shengus, Pakistan, 53 Wulfenite (on Mimetite) San | | | Journal (issue) | up in Lockenhaus, a town in the Oberpullendorf District of Burgenland, Austria. He immigrated to Australia...Epidote, 11.5 cm, from Alchuri, Shigar district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Gold, 2.3 cm, from the Kintore...Australia. Tourmaline, 13 cm, from Paprok, Kamdesh district, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Supplement to The Mineralogical...Trust Aquamarine, 10 cm, from Doi Ty, Quy Chau district, Nghe[≥ An, An Province, Vietnam. Copper with...Tourmaline, 10 cm, from Paprok, Kamdesh district, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Topaz, 7 cm, from the 336 Pocket, VolodarskVolynskii | | | Journal (issue) | Ray Hill collection; Michael Bainbridge photo. Topaz, 4 cm, from Murzinka, Russia; Mike Menzies collection;...“a new mineral store” in the central business district of Spokane, Washington, at W. 410 Riverside Avenue...and associated minerals from the Michigan copper district. This is an old time collection,” he said, “collected...he not only opened nice pockets of amazonite and topaz, but systematically mapped the pegmatite and collected...(cobalt-rich), 15.6 cm, from Aghbar Mine, Bou Azzer district, Morocco. Quartz, 14.5 cm, from the São Geraldo | | Hawthorne, F. C., Cooper, M. A., Ball, N. A., Abdu, Y. A., Cerny, P., Camara, F., Laurs, B. M. (2012) Billwiseite, ideally Sb3+5(Nb,Ta)3WO18, a new oxide mineral species from the Stak Nala pegmatite, Nanga Parbat - Haramosh Massif, Pakistan: description and crystal structure. The Canadian Mineralogist, 50 (4) 805-814 doi:10.3749/canmin.50.4.805 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | NALA PEGMATITE, NANGA PARBAT – HARAMOSH MASSIF, PAKISTAN: DESCRIPTION AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE Frank C. HAWTHORNE§...Haramosh massif at Stak Nala, 70 km east of Gilgit, Pakistan. It is transparent, pale yellow (with a tinge...K-feldspar, tourmaline, muscovite or lepidolite, topaz and fluorite, and billwiseite can be partly mantled...Nanga Parbat – Haramosh massif, Stak Nala, Gilgit, Pakistan. Introduction The granitic pegmatites at...at Stak Nala, Karakoram Mountains, northern Pakistan, belong to the LCT (Li– Cs–Ta) family, with characteristics | | | 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...PRODUCTION AND MARKETS of irradiated “London Blue” topaz had come from NRC-licensed suppliers. Because there | | | 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.... stones such as "emerald," "sapphire," "ruby," topaz, diamond, and garnet were valued as gems in the...garnet cameo swan from the excavations at Taxila, Pakistan (Victoria and Albert Museum, London). During the | | | Journal (issue) | vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected in...early lead mines in the Upper Mississippi Valley district (Mineral Point and others). The animal which appears...ranges in the southern part of the Lake Superior District (the Marquette, Menominee, Gogebic, Cuyuna, Gunflint...Deposition of iron formations in the Lake Superior District ended abruptly 1850 million years ago, suspiciously...to the formation of the famous Michigan Copper District), the Gogebic Range was faulted and tilted nearly | | | Journal (issue) | Hauerite, 2.1 cm, from Raddusa, Catania, Sicily. (7) Topaz, 2 cm, from Schneckenstein, Saxony, Germany. (8)...illustrated in Max Bauer’s Precious Stones (1904): (9) Topaz, 2 cm, from Minas Gerais, Brazil. (10) Chrysoberyl...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 (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 | | | 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) | at congress 15 Gemstone and mineral mining in Pakistan 19 Madison Dialogue holds first colored gems...distribution. In this respect, the government of Pakistan has launched an initiative for the development...assess the gemstone mining situation in northern Pakistan as well as making recommendations for the improvement...Administrated Northern Areas of Pakistan. The trip was limited to the Gilgit, Skardu and Astore districts...have been produced in this mountainous region of Pakistan for nearly 40 years. Mountainous regions are geologically | | | Journal (issue) | octahedralfluoritecrystalsfromChukarBaker,Nagar,Pakistan, collectedSeptember2006 Fire Dalllages Wright's...were recent specimens from Chukar Bakor (Nagar, Pakistan). collected September 2006. of pink. octahedral...crystals from the Aris Phonolite Quarry (Windhoek District. Khomas Region. Namibia). In my view they are...phosphates, Jordi had brought partly resorbed, blue topaz crystals from Mina Teixerinha (Itinga, Minas Gerais)...special exhibit will on Himalayan Minerals - think Pakistan and Afghanistan, hope for Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal | | | Journal (issue) | gold specimens to 3.8 cm, from the Santa Elena district. F. John Barlow collection; Wendell Wilson photo...May–June, 2009 Collection of Thomas Allan (1777–1833) Topaz Cairn-Gorum, Scotland Thomas Allan, after whom allanite...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 | | | Journal (issue) | in Dassu, on the Braldu River in Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan. With the road to Chutron in the...problematic. Garnet on albite is from Seydar, Ho Nala, Pakistan. D. Blauwet photo. We, my jeep driver, Shaj i...down, down, down to the next bridge crossing the Baltistan. then you may understand. Braldu River and cross...that to sell to me. I had come to Pakistan and particularly to Baltistan. The blues feeling of the first...Mineral News February 2008 colored aquamarine and topaz. This time it had produced large pink apatites. |
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Shengus, Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan