Gilgit area
Gilgit is the area where
the first important discoveries of gem minerals in pegmatites have been
made.
The valley has an
average elevation
of 1,454 meters. Still now the area gives very aesthetic specimens of
Aquamarines, topaz, tourmalines, apatites, fluorites, quartz, morganite, grossularia,
albite,
orthoclase, feldspars shorl, and a lot of other minerals typical of the
pegmatite and the"alpine"
crystalisations .
In the same mineralogical district there is the Hunza Valley, Situated at an
elevation of 2,438 meters.
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