Pakistan Gemstone General Information:

Pakistan has different types of minerals which make it so popular

in the minerals world. These popular minerals are peridot,
aquamarine, topaz, ruby, emerald rare-earth minerals bastanesite
and xenotime, sphen, tourmaline and other different types of
quarts.
Pakistan has a long and unsecured boundary with Afghanistan
approximately 2430 km which traded different types of Afghan
minerals to Pakistan. Before 1979 Peshawar was the gemstone
market for both of country, but after the attack of Soviet Union on
Afghanistan, Karachi becomes a bigger minerals market and plays
a key role in the gemstone trade.
In 1979 Pakistan established gemstone corporation for the
propose to discover Pakistans own share wealth in minerals and
make possible gemstone business and mining. There are two
bodies working to develop welfare and industry in Pakistan.
Pakistan (Formerly Export Promotion Bureau) Trade Development
Authority

rough and polished precious and semiprecious stones

All Commercial Export Association. (APCEA)

Since 1994

Pakistani Gem and minerals shows Peshawar has

been held for four days in October .however to draw any potential
buyer from abroad .A few stalls experienced buyers from abroad
on the display cant meet any of the requirements particularly of
the United State and Europe.

The northern and northwest area of the Pakistan such as

Himalaya, Karakorum and Hindukush found different types of
minerals which offer by the Pakistan to the world market such as
peridot, aquamarine, topaz, ruby, emerald, sphen, spinel and
amethyst.

Mining Areas:
Pakistan includes different gemstone mining areas but the main mining areas
are the following.

Khyber Pakhtonkhaw:
Swat (malakand division) Emerald various types of quartz
and apidote.
Dir (malakand division) corundum and quartz.
Mansehra ( hazara division) corundum and smoky quartz.
Kohistan (Hazara division) epidote.
Peshawar district, quartz with astrophyllite / reibeckite fiber
inclusion,
Xenotime and bastnaesite.

Federally Tribal Administration Area:

Mohmand Agency (emerald, epidote sephen )
Bajaur Agency ( granet and orange color scapolite)

Kheber Agency (district quartz with astrophyllite / reibeckite

fiber inclusion,
Xenotime and bastnaesite )
South and Nourth Waziristan Agency, (faden, quartz, dimond
quartz, phantom
Quartz and window quartz)

Northern Areas:
Chilas ( alluvit diopsit, zircon rutile quartz, aquamarine and
tourmaline.)
Gilgit (aquamarine, topaz golden and white.) emerald ruby
pollucit, rutile
Quartz, morganite, apotile spinel pargasit.
Shengus ( aquamarine ,topaz, tourmaline, apatite , sephen,
morganite and
Quartz. )
Shigar (apatite, zoisite,rutile quartz, epidot and morganite.
Childee (aquamarine, emerald color, tourmaline, apatite,
morganite,
And quartz. )

Baluchistan Province:

Kharan District, (brookite, anatase and quartz.)

Chaman, ( dimond quartz, window quartz, quartz on prehnitebase and faden
Quartz included by chlorite.)