Malik Saleem said that Pakistan has enormous wealth of expensive gems such as ruby, emerald, tourmaline, garnet, topaz, peridot, aquamarine, spinel, pargasite, diopside, moonstone, pink topaz, sapphire, zircon, feldspar, agate, serpentine jade, epidote, pink beryl (morganite), purple beryl, sphene,
zoisite, lapis lazuli, turquoise, and kunzite etc.
Malik Shahid informed that Pakistan has enormous wealth of expensive gems such as ruby, emerald, tourmaline, garnet, topaz, peridot, aquamarine, spinel, pargasite, diopside, moonstone, pink topaz, sapphire, zircon, feldspar, agate, serpentine jade, epidote, pink beryl (morganite), purple beryl, sphene,
zoisite, lapis lazuli, turquoise and kunzite etc and Pakistan could earn huge foreign exchange from exports of gems and jewelry.
Eclogites mainly consist of garnet, omphacitic clinopyroxene and symplectite with minor rutile and epidote group minerals (including
zoisite, clinozoisite and epidote).
Speakers from Ministry of Commerce and TDAP informed the audience that Pakistan has enormous wealth of expensive gems such as ruby, emerald, tourmaline, garnet, topaz, peridot, aquamarine, spinel, pargasite, diopside, moonstone, pink topaz, sapphire, zircon, feldspar, agate, serpentine jade, epidote, pink beryl (morganite), purple beryl, sphene,
zoisite, lapis lazuli, turquoise, and kunzite etc.
Goldsmith, "Relative stability of Fe-free
zoisite and clinozoisite," Journal of Geology, vol.
After cycling through a number of possibilities, gemologists eventually settled on "blue
zoisite." This led to its own labeling problems, particularly when it came to marketing.
Epidote (1.3-1.7%) wasasubhedral grains; optical studies identified both
zoisite and clinozoisite.
The wide-range of gemstones including sapphires from Kashmir, emeralds from Swat, rubies from the northern areas and pink topazes from Katlang, Mardan, and good quality zircon, different varieties of quartz, aquamarine, tourmaline, sphene, spinel,
zoisite apatite, epidote, morganite, garnet, scapolite, clino
zoisite, xenotime, bastnaesite, peridot, nephrite, serpentine, red agate, diopside, pargasite, amethyst, scheelite, pollucite, chrome diopside and kunzite are found in mountainous belt from South Waziristan to Chitral, makes the country significant in the mineral world.
By then officially identified as
zoisite by the august Gemological Institute of America, the gem was named tanzanite by Hoving in honour of its country of origin.
Tanzanite is actually a variety of a mineral called
zoisite which ranges in colour from blue, purple, green, brown, pink, yellow, grey, or colourless, and was discovered in the 1800s.
Pakistan is blessed with vast natural reserves of precious, semi-precious and coloured gemstones, including ruby, sapphire, emerald, tourmaline garnet, topaz, peridot, aquamarine, spinel, pargasite, diopsite, moonstone, serpentine, jade, epidote, pink beryl (morganite), goshnite, sphene,
zoisite, turquoise, epitite, agite and almost all known varieties of quartz.