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Locality Name:
Blue Mine, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Oldest recorded age at locality: 55
Youngest recorded age at locality: 4.5

mindat Locality ID: 236010
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-236010.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Blue Mine, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Beryl	None

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al Be O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Be O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Beryl None

1 IMA Minerals at location:

Beryl ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	55	4.5	0		4286

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
AJG8_9877_001	The Dassu orthogneiss hosts many pegmatites, Gilgit is the location of several of these pegmatites
AJG8_9877_002	The Dassu orthogneiss hosts many pegmatites, Gilgit is the location of several of these pegmatites
AJG8_9877_003	Shigar Valley pegmatites

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Age Interpret	Age from other Locality	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
AJG8_9877_001	7.4	6.8	7.1±0.3		Yes	2530	Gilgit, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan	Dassu orthogneiss	Agheem et al. (2015)	10.1007/s12517-015-1900-x	AJG8_9877	The age of the pegmatites is younger than the Dassu orthogneiss which hosts them, there is no metamorphic overprint on the pegmatites
AJG8_9877_002	4.9	4.5	4.7±0.2		Yes	2530	Gilgit, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan	Dassu orthogneiss	Agheem et al. (2015)	10.1007/s12517-015-1900-x	AJG8_9877	The age of the pegmatites is younger than the Dassu orthogneiss which hosts them, there is no metamorphic overprint on the pegmatites
AJG8_9877_003	55	50	55-50	age of collision	Yes	2530	Gilgit, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan	Shigar Valley pegmatites	Agheem et al. (2015)	10.1007/s12517-015-1900-x	AJG8_9877	Trace elements variations place the Shigar Valley pegmatites into syn-collision granite domain. This collision-related magmatism took place when Indian plate collided with the Eurasian plate ~55 to 50 Ma ago (e.g., Molnar and Tapponnier 1975; Petterson and Windley 1985; Beck et al. 1995; Rowley 1996; Bignold and Treloar 2003; Rehman et al. 2011)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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