 | | 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 (issue) | | Newsletter 1 $3.00 Shigar r-------------------------~ Blues "I have got them Shigar Blues" rhythmically...and all, early this morning. Is this day four in Shigar? . Life is timeless here: no newspaper, no news...rest house in Dassu, on the Braldu River in Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan. With the road to Chutron...Chutron in the Basha Valley blocked because of road construction, we were forced to change from that favorite...problematic. Garnet on albite is from Seydar, Ho Nala, Pakistan. D. Blauwet photo. We, my jeep driver, Shaj i |  | | 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...Above: Topaz, schorl, and albite, 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen...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) | | from the C en ten n ia l Eureka m in e, T intic district, Juab C ounty, U ta h ..........................Richard also became charter members o f the Tualatin Valley Gem Club and the Friends of Mineralogy. Over the...surrounding valleys. To the west lies the Sacramento Valley, which drains southwest to the Colorado The Mineralogical...River near Needles. To the east is the Hualapai Valley, which drains north into the Red Lake Playa. The...end o f the Wallapai Mining District. The major mining centers of the district included Cerbat, Chloride |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kashmir": Aquamarinschatz aus dem Karakorum-Gebirge, Pakistan s. Daniel Trinchillo und Federico Pezzotta 12...Kashmir": Aquamarinschatz aus dem Karakorum, Pakistan von Daniel Trinchillo. Mitarbeit: Federico Pezzotta...och in den Gebirgsziigen der Shigarta1-Region in Pakistan durchstol3en Hunderte von Abbaustollen steile...zuriick, doch kiirzlich offnete eine Expedition bei Nyet-Bruk im Bra1du-Ta1 eine Edelsteindruse, deren Ausmal3...cm hohe Stufe aus dem Skardu District im Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan. Stufe von Fine fv1inerals International |  | | Journal (issue) | | Trinchillo Sapat Gali, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan .............................80 cm, from the Biangsapi Gon mine near Nyet Bruk, Pakistan. Private collection; James Elliott photo...FineMineral.com Aquamarine & Quartz | Nyet-Bruk, Skardu District, Pakistan | 15 cm orders@crystalclassics...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: |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada for two summers, subleasing the Royal Peacock...principal city of the entire Jequitinhonha River valley (COMIG-Projeto Espinhaço, 2002). Eucalyptus trees...evolution in the same context as that of the Golconda District (see Cornejo et al., 2019). As the mineralized...did not find a market. On the other side of the valley, nestled near the visited area, there are pegmatites...also 323 Figure 12. A view of the Fanado River Valley area in Capelinha, with several garimpo operations |  | | Journal (issue) | | Trentino Alto-Adige porphyritic platform in the Fassa Valley and the Siusi Alp; druses of orthoclase and quartz...gamet (hessonite variety) and diopside from the Ala Valley. MINERAL COLLECTING FROM THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY...became world-famous for their discoveries in the Ala Valley, and the Pisani family (father and son, respectively...vesuvianite of the rodingites of Piedmont and the Aosta Valley, the sulfur and gypsum from the Ca' Bernardi and...abandoned Sferliin asbestos quarry in the Malenco Valley, following in the footsteps of Pietro Sigismund |  | | 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 |  | | 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...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 |  | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Famous Mineral Localities Alchuri Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals...near the small village of Alchuri in the Shigar Valley, Pakistan, have produced attractive specimens of...article. INTRODUCTION The Raja Bazaar, Rawalpindi, Pakistan: A hot June night, streets teeming and pulsing |  | | Journal (issue) | | scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas... 15 cm, from the Wagholi quarry complex, Pune District, Maharashtra, India. Don and Laura Aaron photo...photo. Spodumene, 9.5 cm, from Resplendor, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Don and Laura Aaron photo...cm, from Raikot, Chilas, Diamar District, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Don and Laura Aaron photo. Celestine..._~__, Apatite on feldspar, 8.6 cm, from Bulachi, Pakistan. Under shortwave ultraviolet light (top right) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountains are world famous for producing aquamarine, schorl, fluorite, and jeremejevite. Perhaps one of the...(885 grams), from St. Anns mine, Mwami, Karoi district, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. This pegmatite has...FineMineral.com Aquamarine & Quartz | Nyet-Bruk, Skardu District, Pakistan | 15 cm |  | | Report (issue) | | Spessartine from Tongbei BY BERTOLD OTTENS 70 Pakistan and Afghanistan: Garnet from the Roof of the World...of Natural Science specimen Bottom: Spessartine, schorl, and a/bite from the Little Three Mine in San Diego...the species in 1886, honoring its similarity to schorl. The schorlomite with the highest known titanium...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. |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | the most colorful and wonderful specimens of the district—at least, in my opinion. Slices were made of some...115 116 Treasured Minerals Beryl with Schorl Schorl, the black variety of tourmaline often found...single finest specimen from that area. With the two schorl crystals flaring off the aquamarine and microcline... 124 Treasured Minerals Aquamarine with Quartz Pakistan is the current source of most of the world’s fine...condition. This piece is from Shigar. The other specimen is from Gilgit and exhibits a 5-inch-long aquamarine |  | | Journal (issue) | | as a civil engineer for the Metropolitan Water District. While working in the desert on the electric transmission...collecting; they took field trips to the Mesa Grande district, the Crestmore quarry, and other localities, and...state is intersected by the Findlay Arch mineral district. The area is characterized by a continental temperate...Mississippi Valley–Type lead-zinc deposit similar to those at Elmwood, Tennessee, the Tri-State district of Missouri...typical of what might be expected of a Mississippi Valley–Type lead-zinc deposit. The following list summarizes |  | | Journal (issue) | | interests was aquamarines from the Shigir Valley in northern Pakistan. Collecting here is not for the faint-hearted...most incredible aquamarine specimen ever found in Pakistan from being hacked apart”. Negotiations were very...quartz 80cm. (200kg) Biangsapi Gon Mine near Nyet Bruk, Pakistan. ©Elliott/ Fine Minerals International I...2. Develline 3. Diamond 4. Cuprite 5. Quartz 6. Schorl 7. Cavansite 8. Pyrite 9. Mottramite 10. Alamandine...second SMLS trip. Shattuckite, (xtals 2mm) Copper Valley Mine, Mesopotamia 504, Khorixas, Kunene Region |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...FLUORITE Dal’negorsk Tetyuche, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia It...12:00 PM CT 9 52004 MANGANOCALCITE Pachapaqui District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru It...visit HA.com/5168 52005 TALMESSITE Bou Azer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ |  | | Journal (issue) | | guarantees finding nothing. The flow of specimens from Pakistan and Afghanistan continues at a considerably slower...!.~-r.:~ brookite from Pashinc (Beluchistan. Pakistan), none of them as good as the five-digit specimens...was green fluorite from Riemwasmaak (Gordonia District, Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province, South Africa)...as every Alpine valley has its own culinary specialties and the ·'salami" of one valley has absolutely...any color. That is why minerals like cassiterite, schorl, magnetite and uraninite have an inherent, incomparable |  | | Book | | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...northwest of the first, he collected good specimens of schorl and of ilmenite, the latter as unaltered and partially...rutile and iron oxides, and they are associated with schorl, quartz and cassiterite (Cairncross and Bahmann...measuring 2.5 X 8 X 12 cm (Pekov, 2000). ASIA PAKISTAN FORMER SOVIBT UNION RUSSIA Dodo deposit near...rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning in |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lorda was born in 1971 and grew up in the Napa Valley region of northern California. Before high school...Tranomaro Commune, Tranomaro-Maromby area, Amboasary District, Anosy Region, Tuléar Province, Madagascar. Mim...Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Mim #2060, acquired in 2018... from Ait Ahmane (auxiliary shaft), Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate, Morocco. Mim #1758, acquired...quartz crystal from Sassi, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Mim #632, acquired in 2004. Augustin |  | | Book (edition) | | dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....byssolite. Mono- coast of North America: Kobuk River Valley, Alaska, clinic, C2/m, a,b,c = 9.89, 18.20, 5.31...e.g. on Grossgreiner Mt., overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto...western Sayan Mts., white at Burumskoye, Vitim River Valley, all Siberia, Russia. In many localities in New... Switzerland, also crystals in Obersulzbachtal Valley, Salzburg, Austria. AM 61,178, 1976. Af ghanite |  | | Book (volume) | | MgB6O7(OH)6·2H2O Locality: Chelkar salt dome, Aksai Valley, Aktobe region, Kazakhstan (type locality). Description:...MgB6O7(OH)6·2H2O Locality: Chelkar salt dome, Aksai Valley, Aktobe region, Kazakhstan (type locality). Description:... Pegmatite Field, Andrembesoa Commune, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province...Sr2[B5O8(OH)]2B(OH)3·H2O Locality: Billie mine, Death Valley, California, USA. Description: White platelets...Reference Samples Data CaB6O10·5H2O Locality: Death Valley, California, USA. 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Nyet Bruk, Nyet, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan