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Cassiterite from
Shengus, Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Topazⓘ16 photos of Cassiterite associated with Topaz at this locality.
Aquamarineⓘ5 photos of Cassiterite associated with Aquamarine at this locality.
Cleavelanditeⓘ5 photos of Cassiterite associated with Cleavelandite at this locality.
Albiteⓘ4 photos of Cassiterite associated with Albite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ3 photos of Cassiterite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Schorlⓘ3 photos of Cassiterite associated with Schorl at this locality.
Muscoviteⓘ3 photos of Cassiterite associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Tourmalineⓘ1 photo of Cassiterite associated with Tourmaline at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shengus, Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Photo GalleryView Gallery (15 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46972
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46972:6
GUID (UUID V4):713f9c39-6e1e-47d8-8530-b45f984d81f0
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
5.2km (3.2 miles) ⓘBulochi, Drot Valley, Astore District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
5.9km (3.7 miles) ⓘDrot Valley, Astore District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
19.0km (11.8 miles) ⓘDache, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
20.3km (12.6 miles) ⓘStak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
68.0km (42.2 miles) ⓘYuno high mines, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...19.6 cm high Shigar Valley, Skardu district, Northern Areas, Pakistan P hoto by Jeff Scovil Collection
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...and albite, 7.8 cm tall; Shigar Valley Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Wayne Sorensen collection, Scovil photo...the banks of the Basha River in Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Pakistan. Dudley Blauwet photo, June 12, 2006... Germany; Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Pakistan; near Volyndarsk-Volynsky, Ukraine;
Journal (issue)
from the C en ten n ia l Eureka m in e, T intic district, Juab C ounty, U ta h ..........................end o f the Wallapai Mining District. The major mining centers of the district included Cerbat, Chloride...is gener­ ally at a stand-still throughout the district. The town of Cerbat played a lively role in the...the Cerbat M ountains and the Wallapai Mining District is extremely complex and beyond the scope of this...mine. DINGS, M. G. (1951) The Wallapai mining district, Cerbat Moun­ tains, Mohave County, Arizona. U
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8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen...with crystals to 5 cm across; the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell County, where some muscovite crystals...specimens were many Schaller had collected in the Pala district, San Diego County, California. The assortment...struck a chord with me. Other mines in the Pala district that have produced musco- Downloaded by [National...deposit of Panasquiera, Covilhã, Castelo Branco district, Portugal, has yielded some nice examples of muscovite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
currently producing localities in countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Colombia, Madagascar, Zambia...crystal on albite from the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 11-cm specimen...associated elbaite from the Stewart mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 5 × 4 × 3.5-cm...morganite, on albite from the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Fisher-Kureczka...morganite, and albite from the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Fisher-Kureczka
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from the Gachalå mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacå Department, Colombia. Gail & Jim Spann...Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Middle row, from left: Cassiterite twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County,...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
Report (issue)
petalite, amblygonite, lepidolite, elbaite, cassiterite, columbite, apatite, eucryptite, muscovite, potassic...Taquaral district, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Large crystals from the Shengus, Skardu, and Gilgit districts...districts, Pakistan. At Nilaw, Nuristan district, Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Additional minor occurrences
Journal (issue)
up in Lockenhaus, a town in the Oberpullendorf District of Burgenland, Austria. He immigrated to Australia...plates of axinite-(Fe) from the Colebrook mine, cassiterite crystals to 8 cm across from Storey’s Creek mine...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
Journal (issue)
14.5 cm, from Dassu, Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. James Elliott photo. Supplement to...on stilbite, 11.3 cm, from Rahuri, Ahmadnagar district, Maharashtra, lndia. Roberto Appiani photo. Supplement...crystal is 26 cm), from Mt. Malosa, Zomba-Malosa district, Malawi. Roberto Appiani photo. PEZZOTTAITE ...quartz with albite, 11 cm, from Nyet Bruk, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Roberto Appiani photo. "IMPERIAL" TOPAZ...crystals to 14 cm), from Mt. Malosa, Zomba-Malosa district, Malawi. Roberto Appiani photo. Supplement to
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...Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit­ Baltistan, Pakistan John Rakovan collection, Jeff Scovil...light) 8.6 cm tall Bulache, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Jonathan Allred col lection, Joe
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
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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...exchange for exclusive gem-mining rights in the district. Agreeing, the king made U Tha Doon “sole governor”...depopulated mining district, and the smuggling of gems entirely out of the district became an industry...off complete anarchy, King Mindon decreed the district free and open to all for mining and trading. Additionally
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 appears...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...to the formation of the famous Michigan Copper District), the Gogebic Range was faulted and tilted nearly
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...material which interf ered with the purification of cassiterite tin ore; it was called Schorlein, Schorleyn or
Report (issue)
Spessartine from Tongbei BY BERTOLD OTTENS 70 Pakistan and Afghanistan: Garnet from the Roof of the World...uranium-vanadium deposit of the Sandy Mine in the Laguna District, New Mexico, is the type locality for goldmanite...of the Kao Kimberlite Pipe in the Butha-Buthe district of the landlocked African Kingdom of Lesotho....garnet cameo swan from the excavations at Taxila, Pakistan (Victoria and Albert Museum, London). During the...the modem village of Donduran in the Yenipazar district of the city of Aydin in the Turkish Province of
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“a new mineral store” in the central business district of Spokane, Washington, at W. 410 Riverside Avenue...and associated minerals from the Michigan copper district. This is an old time collection,” he said, “collected...(cobalt-rich), 15.6 cm, from Aghbar Mine, Bou Azzer district, Morocco. Quartz, 14.5 cm, from the São Geraldo...chalcopyrite, 23.7 cm, from Gaskin’s mine, Empire sub-district, Pope County, Illinois. Fluorite, 16.4 cm, from... 11.2 cm, from the La Viesca mine, La Collada district, Asturias, Spain. Supplement to the Mineralogical
Journal (issue)
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...chrysoberyl; petalite; pollucite; tantalite; cassiterite; apatite, monazite, and a wide variety of other...States; the high mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan; Minas Gerais in Brazil; Mozambique and Namibia
Journal (issue)
pyrargyrite, 48 single crystals of cuprite, 154 of cassiterite, 345 of cerussite, 197 of wulfenite, 54 of bournonite...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...2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Mount Apatite district near Auburn, Maine. Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Ghundao Hill, Katlang, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo. a showcase
Journal (issue)
10.5 cm, Braldu Valley, Skardu, Northem Areas, Pakistan ; Marc Countiss collection; Joe Budd photo. This...COLLECTION Schort on albite, 15 cm, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Joe Budd photo. Elbaite, 14.5 cm, Pederneira...photo. Mesolite with apophyllite, 14 cm, Pune district, Maharashtra, India. Joe Budd photo. Apophyllite...Apophyllite on stilbite, 9.5 cm, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, lndia. Joe Budd photo. Arsenopyrite with quartz...stibnite, 8.5 cm, Xionghuang Kuang mine, Wuyu district, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Ex Steve
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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
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undiscovered at this time, whereas the nearby Sar-e-Sang District—red arrow—had been mined for lapis lazuli for...together with similar pegmatites in nearby regions of Pakistan, have perhaps been the most important new specimen-producing...volume 48, September–October, 2017 Afghanistan and Pakistan. These informants have visited many of the deposits...specimens at their sources and in the Peshawar, Pakistan market, as well as on the world market, and some...centered itself in Peshawar, Pakistan. Whether originating specifically in Pakistan or Afghanistan, most gems
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Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...they are associated with schorl, quartz and cassiterite (Cairncross and Bahmann, 2006a; Von Bezing, Bode...measuring 2.5 X 8 X 12 cm (Pekov, 2000). ASIA PAKISTAN FORMER SOVIBT UNION RUSSIA Dodo deposit near...(Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning in the early...testing to be hematite. Zagi [Zegi] Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings
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Dr. G. Liittig, Erlangen Band 25 GEOL OGY OF PAKISTAN edited by / F. K. Bender and H. A. Raza 1995...BORNTR AEGER · BERLIN · STUTTGART GEOLO GY OF PAKISTAN edited by F .K. Bender and H.A. Raza by D....Developme nt Institute of Pakistan, 230, Nazimuddi n Road F-7 /4, Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr. D. BANNERT, Dr....of Pakistan, FF 2 Block 59, Seaview Township, Defence Housing Authority, Karachi-75500, Pakistan. Prof...University of the Punjab, New Campus, Lahore-54590, Pakistan. Ongoing small scale detachment tectonics within
Journal (issue)
Mineralogy of the Spring Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number...and 1909, the mines of the Last Chance mining district produced significant quantities of copper and...specimens from Georgiana’s Cornish suite are cassiterite, copper and cuprite. Some of the latter were...artist White Watson. Journal of the Bakewell and District Historical Society, no. 8, 1– 9 + 12 un-numbered...III: White Watson. Journal of the Bakewell and District Historical Society, no. 9, 113. BRIGHTON, T. (1983)
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dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....and at Dassu and Shengus. 60 km ESE of Gilgit, both Skardu area. Northern Areas. Pakistan. Abundant occurrences...Czech Rep., in grains to 15 cm. It accompanies cassiterite in apical albititic leucogranite copula at Montebras...Its optical properties approach to those of cassiterite. Pale gray, with visible anisotropy. R = 11-14...11-14 %. It occurs in sphalerite, with cassiterite, siderite, etc., in the Argut Zn deposit, Haute-Garonne
 
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