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Baldistan district, Northern areas (Pakistani-administered portion of Kashmir). My minerals came from Skardu area (Skardu is the capital of Baldistan, near the Karakoram mountain ramge); Shigar Valley is one of the most popular place from the mineralogical point of view, with alpine-cleft metamorphic occurrences and pegmatites deposits

 

Diopside
Plate with apple green, transparent prismatic XX up to 1,5cm long, perfectly terminated, on rodingite matrix
12.5x6cm
Tourmik, Skardu Road, Baldistan district, Norther Areas. Pakistan
Specimen n.456

 

Diopside
Semi-transparent and well terminated X on white  albite, 0.9cm long. It is a detail of a piece full of XX, dark green
10x6.5cm
Shigar Valley, Baldistan district, Norther Areas. Pakistan.
Specimen n.471

Another photo: entire piece

 

Epidote
This is detail of a surface covered by XX, up to 2.8cm long, transparent, with some bissolite
7.5x7cm
Shigar Valley, Baldistan district, Norther Areas. Pakistan
Specimen n.789

Another photo: a bigger and different view

 

Epidote
Group of elongated XX, up to 7 cm long, on matrix
12.5x7cm
Gilgit, Gilgit disctrict, Northern Areas. Pakistan
Specimen n.1353

 

Spessartine
Group of XX, up to 0.8cm wide, with muscovite on pegmatitic rock 
8x6cm
Shigar Valley, Baldistan district, Northern Areas. Pakistan
Specimen n.448

Balochistan region. Balochistan is the largest province in Pakistan, located in the south-west of the nation. The Zards mountains seems to be the precise locality for pieces (west of Kharan, central part of Raskoh mountains)
 

 

Anatase
Single X, 0.5 cm long, welll shaped and with metallic luster, within calcite malformed XX
8x5cm
Kharan, Balochistan. Pakistan
Specimen n.872

Another photo: a bigger view

 

Anatase
Group of 3 XX on matrix (two in the photo), up to 0.7cm long. It is worth to notice that the bigger X is clearly a twinned formation, made by two distinct bipyramids
2.8x2.7cm
Kharan, Balochistan. Pakistan
Specimen n.787

 

Anatase
Semitransparent dark X, well shaped, with the usual truncated tips. It is 0.7cm long
7x3.5
Kharan, Balochistan. Pakistan
Specimen n.676

 

Anatase
Doubly terminated X - 0.6x0.4 cm - bipyramidal and truncated by very well developed faces of the pinacoid; some bluish reflections. It is posted on quartz with calcite 
7x3.5
Kharan, Balochistan. Pakistan
Specimen n.873

Another photo: a bigger and different view

 

Anatase
Bright dark bluish/black X, 0.8cm long
5x3.5
Kharan, Balochistan. Pakistan
Specimen n.1168

Another photo: bigger view

 

Brookite
A perfect X, 1cm long, with other minor brookite XX, on matrix with quartz and albite
5.5x4m
Kharan, Balochistan. Pakistan
Specimen n.813

Another Photo: entire piece

Brookite
Black  XX,  with metallic luster, up to 1.2 cm long, on a quartz matrix
6x4m
Kharan, Balochistan. Pakistan
Specimen n.927


 

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