 | | 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) | | (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...schorl, and albite, 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen collection, Scovil...collection, Jeff Scovil photo Below: Topaz and spessartine, field of view 3.8 cm wide Sawtooth Range, Idaho;...the banks of the Basha River in Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Pakistan. Dudley Blauwet photo, June 12, 2006 |  | | 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) | | 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: |  | | Catalog/List | | seen. 12 13 The Hunza, Braldu, and Shigar Valleys in Northern Pakistan are known for their exceptional...Aquamarine on Feldspar Nyet-Bruk, Shigar Valley, Skardu Dist., N. Area, Pakistan 10.2 cm tall x 5.7 cm...6.3 cm tall x 1.9 cm diameter 38 39 40 Spessartine with Smoky Quartz Grossular Garnet Tongbei... Brucite on Brucite Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan Region, Pakistan 12.7 cm tall x 25 cm wide A recent...recent discovery of yellow brucite in Pakistan yielded the finest and most visually stunning examples |  | | 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) | | 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) | | 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...spodumene; topaz; the garnet group, especially spessartine and almandine; amblygonite; brazilianite; euclase; |  | | 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) | | 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...Aquamarine with spessartine, muscovite and feldspar, 10 cm, from Raikot, Chilas, Diamar District, GilgitBaltistan...GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Don and Laura Aaron photo. Celestine on sulfur, 5.5 cm, from 70-meter level, Machow |  | | Report (issue) | | to this series Facing page: Faceted pyrope-spessartine from Kenya 99.5 carats Houston Museum of Natural...KOURlMSKY AND JAROSLAV HYR�L Classic Garnets: Spessartine BY GLORIA STAEBLER, DUDLEY BLAUWET GARY ZITO...ZANG AND THOMAS FEHR 66 Spessartine from Tongbei BY BERTOLD OTTENS 70 Pakistan and Afghanistan: Garnet...six almandine, andradite, grossular, pyrope, spessartine, and uvarovite-are sufficiently abundant and..."pyralspite" group, named for pyrope, almandine, z and spessartine. Those with Ca + in the X-site form the "grandite" |  | | Book | | almandine, an iron-bearing garnet, rather than spessartine, which they are sometimes labeled as. Treasured...the most colorful and wonderful specimens of the district—at least, in my opinion. Slices were made of some...boulder that contained yellow beryl, morganite, spessartine, topaz, lepidolite, torbernite, elbaite and other...crystals than most. The rich distribution of orange spessartine garnets enhances the quartz and feldspar matrix... 124 Treasured Minerals Aquamarine with Quartz Pakistan is the current source of most of the world’s fine |  | | 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) | | were combined under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey 168 PRODUCTION AND MARKETS...militant Taliban were forcing residents of the Swat Valley, which had been closed for nearly a decade, to...finance terrorist activities (“Emeralds from Swat Valley. . . ,” 2009). The decade also saw the rise in...in popularity of garnets such as spessartine (e.g., Laurs, 2002b), demantoid (Laurs 2002a; Eddins 2010)...to the traditional spinel sources of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Myanmar (spinel, if polished elsewhere, is |  | | 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 |  | | 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 | | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...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...region of Alpine-type clefts along the Torrniq Valley produced small numbers of ilmenite specimens reminiscent...The thin-tabular ilmenite crystals of the Torrniq Valley also form spherical aggregates ("closed roses") |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lorda was born in 1971 and grew up in the Napa Valley region of northern California. Before high school...Laumontite Microcline Muscovite Orthoclase Quartz Spessartine Titanite Uvite ◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | (15) 1.15 ct purplepink sapphire, (16) 5.54 ct spessartine, (17) 8.04 ct orange sapphire, and (18) 3.48...southern Asia (Sri Lanka, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, and China), and Australia. The major...southern Tanzania; spessartine garnet from Nigeria and Namibia; exceptional peridot from Pakistan; and pink to...Deposits in Afghanistan (Panjshir Valley) and Pakistan (Swat Valley) produced fine-quality emeralds of...occurrences in Malawi, Russia, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China have had little commercial impact to |  | | 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. Description: White fibrous aggregate |
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Nyet Bruk, Nyet, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan