 | | 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 Collection |  | | Report (issue) | | partner, Tom Hanna, recovered specimens of epidote, quartz, clintonite and other good things from Copper Mountain...priced at $250. There are also chlorite-included quartz (in rare cases Japanlaw-twinned), andradite, magnetite...and partially enclosed by, drusy quartz: Yugawaralite with drusy quartz, 4.5 cm, from the Chena Hot Springs...a new site somewhere in the Tormiq Valley of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan: he writes that they came “from...keeping, priced at $1,200. Other localities in Pakistan at other times have yielded fine epidote specimens |  | | 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) | | Magdalensburg (Carinthia, Austria), where a series of quartz crystals were found at a settlement that can be...(Lombardy, northem Italy), a transparent and perfect quartz crystaldoubly terminated and about 2.5 cm in diameter-was...foothills of the Lombardy Alps (Pezzotta, 1999), where quartz occurs in a deposit very similar to that of the...the Sicilian sulfur deposits; so-called "fenster quartz" of Porretta Terme; gypsum and other minerals of...platform in the Fassa Valley and the Siusi Alp; druses of orthoclase and quartz with associated minerals |  | | Report (issue) | | mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyali district, Kayseri Province, central Anatolia region, Turkey...mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyali district, Kayseri Province, central Anatolia region, Turkey...discovery of very good rose quartz crystals from an unnamed mine in the Huancayo district, Huancayo Province,...the old classic rose quartz occurrence on Plumbago Mountain in Maine. Rose Quartz, 5.8 cm, from the Huancayo...Huancayo district, Huancayo Province, Junin Department, Peru. Fabre Minerals specimen and photo. 6 |  | | 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...‘normal’ habit, often in conjunction with euhedral Quartz crystals. The potential for new discoveries and...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected in...1966, Bart discovered very fine Japan-law twinned quartz associated with tourmaline at the Bald Hornet claim...In 1982, Bart opened up a huge pocket of superb quartz and The Mineralogical Record, volume 51, May–June...pen-and-ink drawings on the cover depicting a scepter quartz from Denny Mountain, Washington. hematite pseudomorphs...hand-coloring natural quartz crystals and clusters of crystals, dubbing them “ART Quartz, Natural Quartz Hand-Tinted |  | | 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...companions and I turned and ambled up the Indus Valley toward Skardu, on one of the only two mostly-sunny...foreboding gorge guarding the lower entrance to the valley. It turned out to not be a mine per se, but an...analysis, I observed both colorless sphemles on quartz with sphalerite, as well as purplish-red microcrystalline |  | | 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...This case shows his sub-collections of calcite, quartz, pyrite and hematite, one species per shelf. Wilson...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...Blanton Pencil garnet from the Haramosh Mountains near Gilgit, Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....with relatively little smoky color compared to the quartz from other Piedmont amethyst occurrences. Hundreds...a depression that would contain colorless drusy-quartz-lined vugs containing nice clusters of gemmy amethyst...could be seen in these pockets, where the clear quartz druse lining the wall rock had separated from its |  | | Journal (issue) | | and Vail, Colorado. www.MardaniFineMinerals.com Quartz Cabiche, Colombia 14.5 cm CRYSTAL CLASSICS FINE...BUY COLLECTIONS & FINE INDIVIDUAL SPECIMENS Quartz var. Gwindel, Dodo, Russia, 11 cm Photo: Malte...Mineralogical Record, volume 51, March–April, 2020 Quartz var. open and closed Gwindel, Winterstock, Switzerland... volume 51, March–April, 2020 Smoky and Rose Quartz, 15.4 cm Coronel Murta, Brazil Rudolf Watzl Freistadt...notably pink amethyst crystals—a new color variety of quartz. The substantial reserves remaining should continue | | | Journal (issue) | | notably pink amethyst crystals-a new color variety of quartz. The substantial reserves remaining should continue...INTRODUCTION Amethyst is the purple variety of quartz colored by the presence of iron, activated by exposure...iron chromophore, and is not equiva lent to rose quartz, which derives its color from sub-microscopic inclusions...River, to the Afielo locality. In the Neuquen River Valley, farm fields, herds of cattle, the famous Patagonian...provincial route No. 7. Upon leaving the Neuquen River Valley, the weather changes from humid to extremely arid |  | | Catalog/List | | Avenue, 17th Floor • Dallas, Texas 75219 Design District Annex • 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, Texas 75207...2008 Heritage Auctions, Inc. Heritage Design District Annex 15404 Natural History Specialist Steve...difficult to obtain. One of his favorite minerals is Quartz, as can be seen by the wide variety of types and...specimens”, he particularly favored the rare “Japan-Law” Quartz twins and has many unusual ones in his collection...from as many locations as possible. He also loved Quartz because he self-collected “Herkimer Diamonds” in |  | | 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...Notes from the Editors Quartz Memory Crystals People have always marveled at quartz crystals; there is something...has Jong been inspired, in part, by the beauty of quartz crystals. Recent research is giving a new and exciting...exciting dimension to the "timeless" quality of quartz crystals. Digital data storage is a key component |  | | Book | | Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...major associations of Swiss hematite iron roses are quartz, ortboclase, albite, rutile, and zeolites (especially |  | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . .95 by R. Appiani Alpine quartz gwindels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...collection; photo by Thomas Sch pbach. See the article on quartz gwindels in this issue. The Mineralogical Record...crystal groups ever found, as well as albite, smoky quartz, goethite, fluorite, and many rare species at their |  | | Journal (issue) | | each time. The Quartz Set, containing different examples of crystalline and massive quartz and rocks that...that are mostly quartz. So where is School Collections going in the future? With the pandemic and the...and signed up immediately and walked out with a quartz cabochon cut under the tutelage of Gary Anderson...spent the next six months practicing SRBs on clear quartz. Around that time I was invited to join the Texas...masks! Cover Photo: Jill is holding a a carved quartz Faberge cigarette case. Urban Dictionary: A Doodlebugger |  | | Catalog/List | | and Mail) Heritage Auction Galleries Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, Texas 75207...Avenue, 17th Floor • Dallas, Texas 75219 Design District Annex • 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, Texas 75207...2009 Heritage Auctions, Inc. Heritage Design District Annex 18265 Natural History Specialist Steve... MINERALS TOURMALINE Tourmaline Queen Mine, Pala District, San Diego County, California, USA 53086 BLUE...BLUE & PURPLE FLUORITE WITH CALCITE, DOLOMITE AND QUARTZ Shangbao Pyrite mine, Leiyang Co., Hengyang Prefecture |  | | Journal (issue) | | Herderite update • Large opal doublet • Three rutilated quartz cat’s-eyes • Spurrite • Bicolored cat’s-eye tourmaline...artificial resin • Petroleum inclusions in quartz from Pakistan • New Swarovski triplet loupe • Conference...55 R.I., indicated that there were also areas of quartz, probably chalcedony, in the backing material (see...Elizabeth P. Quinn Three Rutilated QUARTZ Cat’sEyes Rutilated quartz is a popular gem material. In lower...and jewelry designers. Three chatoyant rutilated quartz cabochons recently examined in the West Coast laboratory |  | | Journal (issue) | | Silver Belt mines, Flux mine, Carlotta mine, Oatman District, Bagdad mine, North Geronimo mine, lost Hill Top...Blue Ball mine (1989, vol. 20, no. 6) The Silver District (1990, vol. 21, no. 2) The Fat Jack mine (1991...Union mine (1997, vol. 28, no. 3) The Castle Dome District (1998, vol. 29, no. 5) The Purple Passion mine...Somerset, England BA22 9HY MALKHAN Tourmaline with Quartz and Cleavelandite Malkhan Pegmatite Field, Russia...Tucson at Riverpark Inn and Westward Look Show Quartz var Amethystszepter, Goboboseb, Namibia, 12 cm |
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Tormiq Valley, Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan