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LocalitiesZiguighara Mountains, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan

27th Mar 2024 10:18 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Why does this exist here? Can't find any reference to these mountains online, and we don't seem to be using the page for anything.

Delete it?

27th Mar 2024 11:46 UTCEddy Vervloet Manager

Can't find anything either...

27th Mar 2024 11:52 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Can't remember why I added it in 2009 (maybe found it on a label and wanted to do further investigations), but I never added a hardly known mountain range just because it exists. Because Wikipedia and Google don't give hits, I think it's safe to delete.

27th Mar 2024 13:22 UTCKevin Conroy Manager

I only found one hit, so it's very likely an error.

https://www.mnhnl.lu/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/topics/mineralogy/mineraux_details&db=mineraux&Id==8201

27th Mar 2024 15:56 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Thanks, Kevin. I'll check in our inventory database whether it's the locality given for a specimen or not.

28th Mar 2024 09:30 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

It's in fact in our database, but no object is associated with the locality. (Maybe the object is waiting for being catalogued.)

28th Mar 2024 10:11 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager

Maybe a mistranslation / mispronunciation in recording.

I've tried several search engines and nothing comes close (certainly at this stage).

I think it's better to delete at this stage.

Can always be re-added once full details are known.

28th Mar 2024 11:23 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager

Kevin's reference above includes the town of Warsak, which is a few km NW of Peshawar, in the locality string for the xenotime specimen. There are low mountains to the W of the town, but they don't seem to be named (at least on Google Maps).

http://nceg.uop.edu.pk/GeologicalBulletin/Vol-4-1969/Vol-4-1969-Paper6.pdf

This additional reference for Warsak also doesn't include any mountain range names. The next step might be asking a Peshawar mindat member (or mineral dealer) if the mountain range name sounds familiar.

28th Mar 2024 12:28 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager

I suspect that Zigui is just an alternative spelling of Zagi, and the "Zigui" xenotimes will look exactly like the well-known ones from Zagi mt.

https://www.mindat.org/loc-51430.html

28th Mar 2024 13:09 UTCJosé Zendrera 🌟 Manager

I think that Alfredo is right, very likely Ziguighara refers to Zagi and can be removed.

BTW I can't find Ziguighara Mountains page.

28th Mar 2024 16:45 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

I deleted it