 | | 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 |  | | 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) | | Holt (1990) 6 Santa Teresa Mountains, Aravaipa district, Graham County, AZ, USA Santa Teresa Mountains...beryl Moore (2009); Ross (1925) 7 South Platte district, Buffalo Creek, Jefferson County, CO, USA Pikes...(1968); Kunz (1884); Pegau (1929) 10 Petaca district, Rio Arriba County, NM, USA Intrusive into metamorphic...(2009); Swanson and Veal (2010) 12 Middletown district, Middlesex County, CT, USA Intrusive into metamorphic...no known source LCT Rare-Element spodumene, elbaite, beryl Little (1942); Foye (1922); Stugard (1953) |  | | 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...A. McCrillis) [1975, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 14-21.] Elbaite from Newry, Maine (by P. J. Dunn) [1975, vol. 6...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | on the web. Elbaite, 2 cm, from Stak Nala, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Marin Minerals...beautiful elbaite crystals from a new find at Stak Nala near Tukla, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan (the...(the former Northern Areas), Pakistan; the crystals range in length from 1.5 to 5 cm. It’s been quite a few...=============================== color-zoned Stak Nala elbaites have shown pale green, pale blue or pale...seeing in Stak Nala specimens; rather, they are without matrix or associations. Stak Nala elbaite has been |  | 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) | | MINERAL SPECIES FROM THE STAK NALA PEGMATITE, NANGA PARBAT – HARAMOSH MASSIF, PAKISTAN: DESCRIPTION AND CRYSTAL...of the Nanga Parbat – Haramosh massif at Stak Nala, 70 km east of Gilgit, Pakistan. It is transparent,...The most abundant minerals in the cavities at Stak Nala are albite, quartz, K-feldspar, tourmaline, muscovite...granitic pegmatite, Nanga Parbat – Haramosh massif, Stak Nala, Gilgit, Pakistan. Introduction The granitic...granitic pegmatites at Stak Nala, Karakoram Mountains, northern Pakistan, belong to the LCT (Li– Cs–Ta) family |  | | Report (issue) | | Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, and 19 of these specimens, from small miniature...Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Marin Minerals specimen; Mike Keim photo. 4...=== Quartz, 2.1 cm, from Zhob, Baluchistan, Pakistan. Mineral Movies specimen; Jeff Fast photo. Jeff...floater quartz crystals from Zhob, Baluchistan, Pakistan. He remarks on the site that “the last time these...in the recently sold Herb Obodda collection of Pakistan and Afghanistan minerals). Jeff’s new, thumbnail-size |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | page 14 In this issue … Mineral of the month: Elbaite ........... p. 2 Program: Tourmalines of Maine...EFMLS: Annual convention ................ p. 20 Elbaite Source: Smithsonian Institution. Upcoming events...21 Photo: Chip Clark. Mineral of the Month Elbaite Happy St. Patrick’s Day! by Sue Marcus What’s...Watermelon tourmaline is a particular, informal form of elbaite, our March Mineral of the Month. Northern Virginia...they see elbaite in their mind’s eye, usually as a single red-pink or green crystal. Elbaite is unusual |  | | Report (issue) | | full of elbaite specimens from many places, and all are top-notch, but it was a piece from Stak Nala, Pakistan—already...say—which caught my eye, not so much because the elbaite crystal is shapely, well terminated and gemmy (most...because it is yellow. Of course, we expect Stak Nala elbaite crystals to be dark green with pink and colorless...” Collected in 1981 and thus very “early” for Stak Nala, the specimen was once in the David Eidahl collection...=========== Elbaite, 4.7 cm, from Stak Nala near Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Andy Seibel Minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | currently producing localities in countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Colombia, Madagascar, Zambia...crystal on albite from the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 11-cm specimen...variety morganite, with associated elbaite from the Stewart mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California...morganite, on albite from the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Fisher-Kureczka...morganite, and albite from the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Fisher-Kureczka |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 7-cm-high elbaite, with a very dark base that may be schorl, from Chamachu, Stak Nala, Haramosh, Skardu...Skardu, Baltistan, Pakistan. Fabre Minerals specimen and photo. JOHN S. WHITE PO Box 332 Stewartstown, Pennsylvania...john@jwkustos.com T Buergerite Chromdravite Dravite Elbaite Feruvite Foitite Liddicoatite Magnesiofoitite Olenite...5-cm-high schorl-elbaite with quartz from the Big Kahuna zone, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County...species in each group have numerous varietal names. Elbaite, for example, a tourmaline, may be referred to |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pegmatite District, . Minas Gerais, Brazil, Michael A. Menzies Signature Specimen: Elbaite from the Cruzeiro...5 cm, Limoeiro mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara<;uar district, Minas Gerais, Brazil; private collection, Jeff...14.1 cm, Pioneer mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; D: Elbaite, 8.9 cm high, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego...• 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) | | 276). Roberto Appiani photo. Liddicoatite and elbaite crystals to 3.5 cm, with albite, from Forcel Rosso... 14.5 cm, from Dassu, Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. James Elliott photo. Supplement to...on stilbite, 11.3 cm, from Rahuri, Ahmadnagar district, Maharashtra, lndia. Roberto Appiani photo. Supplement...crystal is 26 cm), from Mt. Malosa, Zomba-Malosa district, Malawi. Roberto Appiani photo. PEZZOTTAITE ...mine, Panasqueira, Portugal. Jeff Scovil photo. ELBAITE two 9-cm doubly terminated crystals from the Himalaya |  | | Report (issue) | | Elbaite Na(Al; Li)3 Al6 (BO3 )3 Si6 O18 (OH)4 c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2 Crystal...Campo, Elba. In the Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) district, Ural Mountains, Russia. From Korgal and Mawi...Laghman Province, Afghanistan. In Pakistan, from around Gilgit and Stak Nala. At Ampantsikahitra, Anjanabonoina...and elsewhere on Madagascar. In the Alto Ligonha district, Mozambique. At Karibib and Usakos, Namibia. In...Brazil, from a large district around Ara»cua¶³-Itinga-Salinas, and the Itatiaia district, Governador Valadares |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and (2) rare intermediate ternary tourmaline: elbaite – schorl – dravite (Na-, Al- and Li-rich). The...Li in the fluid and promoted crystallization of elbaite – schorl – dravite. The rare ternary tourmaline...gneissic host-rocks at Stak Nala, Pakistan, contain exocontact schorl, dravite and elbaite – dravite – schorl...contain exocontact uvite, dravite and Mg-rich elbaite (Novák et al. 1999). In this paper, we record the...crystallization of feruvite – schorl – dravite and elbaite – schorl – dravite. This is one of the few reported |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Tucson, AZ 85705 in the center of the Mineral District. The mineralogy section of the mim today hosts...Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania. 14.5 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm...Väyrynenite. Lolu Dahku mine, Roundu Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. 14.5 x 3 x 2 cm, mim... Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan, 4.5 x 2 x 1 cm, mim specimen...mine (Halero mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Catapleite. Poudrette |  | | Report (issue) | | Vanadinite on siderite, 4.6 cm, from Taouz, Tafilalt district near Erfoud, Morocco. Fabre Minerals specimen...the famous Bou Azzer, Ouarzazate cobalt-mining district, and Jordi has six of these specimens, 6.4 to...similar to the famous one at Mt. Malosa, Zomba district, Malawi, and, like Mt. Malosa, produces well-crystallized...Quartz (iridescent), 4.6 cm, from the Burhanpur district, Madhya Pradesh, India. Key’s Minerals specimen...an unusual iridescent quartz from the Burhanpur district, Madhya Pradesh, India, these ranging in size |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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... erals he was able to collect was astounding: elbaite, smoky quartz, spodumene cleavages, the cleavelandite...struck a chord with me. Other mines in the Pala district that have produced musco- Downloaded by [National |  | | Catalog/List | | JOW. -3- AQUAMARINE/SCHORL/ALBITE. Stak Nala,Gilgit,Pakistan. A superb jet black,adamantine Schorl...trix. MIN,£2. BERYL VAR AQUAMARINE.Stak Nala,Gilgit,N Pakistan. A pale,ice-blue, singly terminated xtl...termination. MIN,£100. BERYL VAR AQUAMARINE. Stak Nala,Gilgit ,N Pakistan. Ex Fasih Ullah colln. O f f matrix...specimen.LC,£120. BERYL/MORION. Diamond Rocks,Mourne Mts,County Down,Ireland. Ex R W Barstow specimen. Excellent...dark-brown,cleavable plates. MUS,£15. BIXBYITE. Wah Wah Mts,Utah,USA. Tiny,bright,modified cube xtls on pale |  | | 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) | | Pyromorphite-Carol & Karl Waming collection, page 276; Elbaite-Daniel Nowak collection, page 201; Diamond-Rob...76; Copper-Paul Bordovsky collection, page 33; Elbaite-Jeremy C. Smith collection, page 235 ; Vanadinite'...Rhodonite-Mark Pospisil .collection, page 21 O; Elbaite-Jack Olivier collection, page 204; Cerussite-Joe...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | schorl, and albite, 7.4 cm tall, Haramosh Mountains, Northern Areas, Pakistan; Gobin specimen. This is a superbly...Figure 11. Elbaite, fluorite, and albite, 10.6 cm tall, Stak Nala, Northern Areas, Pakistan; Wayne Thompson...cm tall, Shigar River Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen specimen. This is a classic matrix |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Central Sweden High Himalaya, Nepal Stak Nala, northeast Pakistan Koktokay # 3 pegmatite, NW China Sierras...Colorado, USA Trout Creek Pass District, Colorado, USA Mojave District, Arizona, USA Searchlight Dist...Nevada, USA Barringer Hill, Llano, Texas, USA White Mts., New Hampshire, USA Wausau Complex, Wisconsin, USA...Nevada, USA Barringer Hill, Llano, Texas, USA White Mts., New Hampshire, USA Wausau Complex, Wisconsin, USA...central Sweden High Himalaya, Nepal Stak Nala, northeast Pakistan Koktokay # 3 pegmatite, northwest China |
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Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan