 | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | the safflorite-coated silver from the old Cobalt District of Ontario is a nice old-timer: identical-looking...from the Castle mine, Gowganda area, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada. Quebul Fine Minerals specimen...world-class anhydrite which came from the Naica district, Chihuahua, Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s, but...Kharbuzeh (also rendered “Chah Kharboze”) mine, Anarak district, Esfahan Province, Iran. The brilliantly red-orange... 1.4 cm, from the Shah Kharbuzeh mine, Anarak district, Esfahan Province, Iran. Fabre Minerals specimen |  | | 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...microcline have come from Alchuri (sometimes spelled Alchori), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals in the...largest approximately 2.5 cm. Also associated with Alchuri diopside are epidote, actinolite, and zoisite....between Alchuri and Shigar at Hashupa (sometimes spelled Hashupi), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals |  | | 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) | | 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 (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...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...Australia. Tourmaline, 10 cm, from Paprok, Kamdesh district, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Topaz, 7 cm, from the |  | | Book | | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite (Robinson and Chamberlain, 1982), with ilmenite...during the 1970s (see this entry for Actinolite, Fluorapatite, Prehnite, Pumpellyite). Ilmenite was found...furnish excellent specimens of gemmy yellow fluorapatite, as well as good specimens of epidote, pyroxene...measuring 2.5 X 8 X 12 cm (Pekov, 2000). ASIA PAKISTAN FORMER SOVIBT UNION RUSSIA Dodo deposit near |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have come from the Uncle Billy Rogers mine, Hope Valley, Alpine County. For those into the lapidary arts...1.5 cm associated with diopside, and rarely fluorapatite, have been collected from Monte Civari, Condove...cm on edge have been found at Žulová, Jesenik district, Olomouc region, Czech Republic. Similar specimens...specimens have come from Černá Voda, Jesenik district, Olomouc region. Brown grossular to 1 cm on edge,...Hazlov (also noted as Haslau on old labels), Cheb district, Karlovy Vary region. Grossular is found as well-formed |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: Minerals of the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia ........................sprays on shattuckite, 7.1 cm, from the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia. Irv Brown specimen; Jeff...Huamin Empire Plaza 726 Yan An Shi Road Changning District, Shanghai City China 200050 Email: chen@irocks...JOAQUIM CALLEN PHOTO STONETRUST ~r/t/w KAOKOVELD DISTRICT Robert J. Bowell ' Olga Ermolina 2 Wim van der...van Us 3 Marius Steiner 4 The Kaokoveld copper district is currently an excellent source offine minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sheet mica pegmatite mines of the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell and Yancey counties. Relatively productive...pale tan zircon crystals from Mount Malosa, Zomba district, Malawi. Lino Caserini specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...also occur in giant crystals, include titanite, fluorapatite, ilmenite, nepheline, scapolite, and the feldspars...locations are Rio do Paixe and Santa Terezinha district, Campos Verdes. Sharp zircon crystals to 1.5 cm...Vizze and in Fassatal Valley, Tretino-Alto Adige, Italy, and in Stubachtal Valley, Salzburg, Austria. Russian |  | | Journal (issue) | | Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations, tungstenite...of the Thomas Vein, Central Kentucky Fluorspar District 13-7: 1.6-8; Minerals near Tateville. Pulaski...Kentucky 13-11:1.6: Oregon 13-11:3 Carbonate fluorapatite Russia 13-10:10 Celadonite Mexico 13-5:6-9 Cclsian...stilbite. 13-9: 1,6-9 Madagascar. Flurpangabe: fluorapatite. 134:6.7.11.12 Mexico. Chihuahua. near Aldama:...Aldama: quartz, 138: 1,6.7; Santa Eulalia District: goethite, quartz, 13-8: 1.6,7: Naica: gypsum. 13-9: 1 |  | | 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 |  | 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) | | manaevite-(Ce) (Fig. 2) with numerous inclusions of fluorapatite/hydroxylapatite and pectolite. Manaevite-(Ce)...Vanadinite Wollastonite Rutile Spessartine Hematite Fluorapatite Lorenzenite Pyrope Pyrope Diopside Barite Atacamite...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...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...artist White Watson. Journal of the Bakewell and District Historical Society, no. 8, 1– 9 + 12 un-numbered...III: White Watson. Journal of the Bakewell and District Historical Society, no. 9, 113. BRIGHTON, T. (1983) |  | | 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) | | chlorite-group minerals, Albearing diopside (fassaite), fluorapatite, goethite, pyrite, grossular, apatite, wollastonite...lorenzenite (Ti), diopside (Si), pyrope (Al, Mg), fluorapatite (Ca), synthetic MnCO3 (Mn), hematite (Fe)....structure of Ti-rich vesuvianite from Alchuri, Shigar valley, Pakistan. Acta Crystallogr B 72:744–752 Allen |  | | 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...Gypsum CaS04-2H20 2 very rare PHOSPHATES Fluorapatite Monazite-(Ce) Ca5(P 04)3(F,0H) (Ce,La,Nd,Th)P04...Helvite Beryl Bertrandite Phenakite Topaz Fluorite Fluorapatite Pyrophanite Rutile Anatase Hematite Magnetite |  | 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) | | scapolite, meionite, davyne, balliranoite), fluorapatite, fluorite, cuspidine, zircon, perovskite, calcite...humite; davyne; or (iii) sanidine, fluorite, fluorapatite and sulfides [5]. (ii) clinopyroxene, sodalite...accessory mineral in syenitic K-feldspar-rich fluorapatite and sulfides [5]. nodules [5,39]. In this rock... 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Oregon Agate and Mineral Society and the Tualatin Valley Gem Club, and a member of the Pacific Northwest...Synchysite-(Ce) VUK 11 Phosphates Carbonate-fluorapatite Fluorapatite Monazite-(Ce) Rhabdophane-(Ce) M olybdates...phosphorescence for a very short duration. Carbonate-fluorapatite Ca5(P 0 4,C 0 3)3F A very rare, late-stage mineral...chlorite-group mineral admixed with fibrous fluorapatite and also with foliated masses of monazite-(Ce)...examined with the BSE detector. Fluorapatite Ca5(P 0 4)3F Fluorapatite is very rare and inconspicuous |  | | Journal (issue) | | localities of the former Soviet Union, Bolivia and Pakistan), who, with Dr. Liu and Herr Ottens, have compiled...passed through a narrow valley with many banana and orange trees. As the valley THE LOCALITY: SETTING...houses. At an elevation of 800 meters a hanging valley began, and what had been the good asphalt road...outcrops of granite. From the sides of the hanging valley itself—to the extent that one could see through...500 meters along a trail, up into a little side valley. Here, enormous amounts of rubble, consisting of |  | | Journal (issue) | | area is basically everywhere except the Dale Beck Valley, Dry Gill and Carrock End Mine. Grahamis hoping... ankerite, hattchetite, and the latest find fluorapatite. Indeed, a draft of Steve and Dave Evans paper...jeremeejevite, silver topaz, aquamarine, amethyst, fluorapatite and tourmalines. Rossinguranium mine, a uraniferous... mid Wales, northeast Wales, Derbyshire, Lake District, mid Pennines, North Pennines (classic for smithsonite)...around each of these areas, starting with the Lake District. Mention was made of the 10 ton block of smithsonite |  | | Book | | Norway: large crystals also occur in the Temiskaming district, Quebec, Canada; tabular crystals up to 120 mm...Czech Republic. It is common in the Cocur d'Alene district, Idaho, USA. Acicular crystals up to 30 cm (12...10 mm (J/s in) long were described from Burra district. Southern Australia, Australia. Crystals up to...cm in size, are known from pegmatites in Nagar, Pakistan. Nice crystals were also found in greisens in...kg (333 lb 3 oz) was also found in the Letaba district. South Africa. Sapphire crystals weighing up to |  | | Book | | Rybicki) 7:72-77 Chalcanthite from the Helvetia district, Arizona (by G. Robinson) 9:252 Cuprite [from...Arizona (by W. A. Thompson) 11:248-250 The Tombstone district, Cochise County, Arizona (by S. A. Williams) 11:251-257... A. Scovil) 21:99-100 Arizona's Silver mining district (by P. Bancroft & G. Bricker) 21:151-168 The Fat...24:67 Famous mineral local.ities: the Rush Creek district, Marion County, Arkansas (by D. A. Richards) 24:285-299...E. Wilson) 19:75 ARNO RNER VALLEY Minerals from the upper Arno River Valley, Tuscany, Italy (by M. Corazza |  | | Book | | Portugal, where they occurred associated with fluorapatite, wolfrarnite and siderite. Historically important...Norway; large crystals also occur in the Temiskaming district, Quebec, Canada; tabular crystals up to 120 mm...Czech Republic. lt is common in the Coeur d' Alene district, Idaho, USA. Acicular crystals up to 30 cm ( L2...10 mm (3/M in) long were described from Burra district, Southern Australia, Australia. Crystals up to...cm in size, are known from pegmatites in Nagar, Pakistan. Nice crystals were also found in greisens in |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Geysers can be reached by taking Alexander Valley Road off the Redwood Highway (U .S. 101) about...fumaroles or openings and outlets in a volcanic district. As the first visitors at this California Hecla...Jurassic-Cretaceous Franciscan Formation and Great Valley sequence. These consist primarily of marine sedimentary...volcanics LEGEND |3BEg Ssrpantinite H2I Great Valley Sequence Figure 8. Map showing the major fault...(1946) Quicksilver deposits of the western Mayacmas district, Sonoma County, California. California Journal |
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Alchuri alpine-type clefts, Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan