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Pakistan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Epidote
Group of elongated XX, up to 7 cm long, on matrix
12.5x7cm
Gilgit, Gilgit disctrict, Northern Areas. Pakistan
Specimen n.1353
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Anatase
Semitransparent dark X, well shaped, with the usual truncated tips.
It is 0.7cm long
7x3.5
Kharan, Balochistan. Pakistan
Specimen n.676
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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
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Anatase
Bright dark bluish/black X, 0.8cm long
5x3.5
Kharan, Balochistan. Pakistan
Specimen n.1168
Another photo:
bigger view
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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
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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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