 | | 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) | | 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 (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... and Kandara (2007) 19 Shigar-Braldu valleys, Gilgit-Balkistan, Pakistan Intrusive into metamorphic |  | | Journal (issue) | | Trinchillo Sapat Gali, Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan .............................cm, from the Biangsapi Gon mine near Nyet Bruk, Pakistan. Private collection; James Elliott photo, Fine... Aquamarine & Quartz | Nyet-Bruk, Skardu District, Pakistan | 15 cm orders@crystalclassics.co.uk |...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) | | 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...James Elliott photo. Bottom row, from left: Fluorapatite, 2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin...collected fluorescent minerals in the Karnes Uranium district near my ancestral home in south Texas. Over time |  | | 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...mineral world, yielding faden crystals of quartz, fluorapatite, clinozoisite, orthoclase, titanite, zoisite |  | | 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) | | 8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen... Associated minerals include beryl, albite, fluorapatite, and quartz. In nearby New Hampshire, the Chandler...across. The associated minerals include albite, fluorapatite, beryl, and quartz, to name but a few. Also...muscovite, some as rosettes, associated with fluorapatite, albite, and quartz have come from here. The...with crystals to 5 cm across; the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell County, where some muscovite crystals |  | | 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...albite, tourmaline, morganite and green gem-grade fluorapatite. INTRODUCTION4 Hundreds of feldspar veins and...titanite, epidote, albite, adularian orthoclase and fluorapatite crystals. Information on these deposits was...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | cm tall Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza-Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Brent Lockhart collection, Jeff Scovil...The Panasqueira Mines: One Hundred Years of Fluorapatite BY CARLES CURTO MILA AND JORDI FABRE I FORNAGUERA...PAGE 86 Apatite Valleys: Localities of Northern Pakistan BY DUDLEY BLAUWET PAGE 96 Apatite from Nuristan...(Damour 1856; Rammelsberg 1860): 4 APATITE fluorapatite, hydroxylapatite, and chlorapatite. Their ideal...of the colors and luminescent properties of fluorapatite. STRUCTURE As with all mineral groups, the |  | | Catalog/List | | Schorl and Quartz Shengus, Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan 7.6 cm tall x 15.2 cm wide Ex-collection...with Spessartine Dassu Mine, Shigar Valley, Skardu Dist., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan 25.4 cm tall x 40...1/18/21 11:05 AM Fluorapatite on Quartz Pulsifer Quarry, West Mount Apatite Mining District, Auburn, Androscoggin |  | | 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) | | 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...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...Gem and lithiumbearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California. California Department |  | | 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 Kintore...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | (Greifensteine, Germany). Association: Eosphorite, fluorapatite, crandallite, montebrasite, morinite (Viitaniemi...Quebec, Canada. Large crystals from near Dassu, Braldu Valley, Pakistan. Name: For its occurrence in the Viitaniemi |  | | 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...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...“Royal purple” fluorapatite, 2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Mount Apatite district near Auburn, Maine |  | | Journal (issue) | | where ores from the various mines of tbe Silver District were treated. The now-famous Red Cloud rnine was...and 1889 he shipped 5,000 specimens of Silver District vanadinite back to Philadelphia. Around 1910 an...including the Flux mine, the Mammoth mine, tbe Silver District mines (including the Red Cloud), and mines in...Gold, 3.3 and 6.8 cm, from the Santa Elena River district, Bolivar Province, Venezuela. Ex Hubert de Monmonier...6.5 cm, from the Morenci mine, Copper Mountain district, Greenlee County, Arizona. Dale Armstrong photo |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Union & DMITRI BELAKOVSKJ China BY GUANGHUA LIU Pakistan BY DUDLEY BLAUWET Fluorite from Japan BY YOSHIRO... Iridescent Fluorite from Ohio's Findlay Arch District BY JASON MCDONALD 69 Canada BY MARK MAUTHNER...Spinet-law contact twin; II cm wide; Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan Dudley Blauwet specimen; Kevin Dixon photo Lower...including Naica, Mexico (page 72) and Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan (page 92). In addition to well-defined individual...rank with fluorite are calcite, sphalerite, fluorapatite, and diamond. This paper provides a short overview |  | | Journal (issue) | | vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected in...early lead mines in the Upper Mississippi Valley district (Mineral Point and others). The animal which...Science Museum at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, Menasha, Wisconsin. When the Weis Museum was being...ranges in the southern part of the Lake Superior District (the Marquette, Menominee, Gogebic, Cuyuna, Gunflint...Deposition of iron formations in the Lake Superior District ended abruptly 1850 million years ago, suspiciously |  | | Journal (issue) | | stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This... Farne Museum in Leadville, the Cripple Creek District Museum, and the Western Museum of Mining and Industry...list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results for gold and...documented in Baskin's History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado (1881), which states that "for ten years...California, where he worked as a gold miner in Lake Valley, El Dorado County. William C. Hart (1849-1936) |  | | Journal (issue) | | chrysoberyl, tourmaline, danburite, forsterite, fluorapatite, topaz, quartz and zircon, plus rare species...spinel, topaz, aquamarine, peridot, zircon, fluorapatite and enstatite, and among its other collectible...Mogok belongs to Mogok Township, in Pyin-U-Lwin District, in Mandalay Division, which borders Sagaing Division...January–February, 2022 Figure 3. The Ruby Mining District in Burma around Mogok, as surveyed by R. Gordon...which he had heard on his travels concerning a “valley of serpents” which was littered with diamonds but |
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Dassu, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan