Namak Mandi: A Pioneering Gemstone Market in Pakistan

Rehman, Habib Ur; Bilal,; Owais, Syed; Rahman, Obaid Ur; Shen, Andy H.

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“…Firstly, being young, they are not afraid of taking risks in innovating and improvising. Secondly, while they might not be experienced in distinguishing between various qualities of gemstones, but being good at navigating online, their entry into the sector seems to fill the caveats in the gemstone business at NM, which was traditionally run skeptically behind closed curtains (Rehman et al, 2021). Referring to this aspect of the gemstone trade, an interviewee boasted that, "our rough has touched every part of the world thanks to the online market.…”

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“…The data presented below can be taken as a revelatory (Yin, 2013) or exemplifying (Bryman, 2012) case. Firstly, NM is not the only trading hub for gemstone dealers, but to the extent that it caters to the trading needs of gemstone dealers from Gilgit-Baltistan, Afghanistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Rehman et al, 2021), the study of its online gemstone traders is revelatory or modal problems, which the online gemstone traders in Pakistan's other areas (e.g., Karachi) could face. Secondly, a number of interviewees unequivocally declared NM as the first and main point for lapidary, marketing, and trading of gemstones.…”

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Problems Faced by Online Gemstone Traders of NamakMandi market at Pakistani Airports

Owais,

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2023

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Purpose: This paper analyses the views and experiences of gemstone traders at the NamakMandi (NM) gemstone market. Methodology: The paper draws on the data from a stakeholder’s workshop held at Bacha Khan University Charsadda (Pakistan) and ten (10) semi-structured interviews primarily with traders, which were conducted as part of a larger research project for identifying factors inhibiting the beneficiation of gemstones in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan. Findings: The paper demonstrates that while the advent of the internet has ushered in quite a new era in the gemstone trade, particularly triggering higher interest among youth to initiate online gemstone businesses, but they are improvising and experimenting in an environment that is completely devoid of any official regulatory environment or support. In the face of the absence of relevant laws and regulations, the employees of the customs department at the airport resort to extortions and bribes both during the exportation and importation of gemstones in Pakistan. Implications: Unless an appropriate regulatory and supportive environment is created, online gemstone businesses may have a very sluggish growth, thus, taping its potential to create income-earning opportunities and revenue for the government.

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Petrogenesis of Chatoyant Green Nephrite from Serpentinite-Related Deposits, Ospinsk, Russia: Insights from Mineralogy and Geochemistry

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Ospinsk is an area in Russia well-known for mining the highest quality green nephrite in the world. However, the chatoyant green nephrite found here has not been studied to date. This study explores the mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrogenesis of chatoyant green nephrite collected from Ospinsk using polarizing microscope back-scattered electron images, scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry, laser Raman spectroscopy, electron microprobe analysis, and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, and compares them with S-type green nephrite from other regions of the world. Tremolite is the main mineral constituent, and chromite, chlorite, graphite, and magnetite are accessory minerals in the samples. The chatoyant green nephrite from Ospinsk is serpentinite-related green nephrite. The Ti content of the chatoyant green nephrite from Ospinsk is significantly higher than that of green nephrite from other places. The chatoyant green nephrite deposit in Ospinsk is a contact metasomatic deposit related to ultramafic rocks. The ultramafic rocks first altered to serpentinite and later converted to tremolite after repeated thermal contact-based metasomatism. During the metasomatism of serpentinite into green nephrite, unilateral, compressive, and shear stresses caused by obduction forced directional growth of tremolite, resulting in chatoyancy.

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We studied the quality characteristics, chemical, mineral and isotope composition of nephrite, diopsidite and rodingite of the Nyrdvomenshor nephrite deposit in the Polar Urals. We applied visual petrographic and mineralogical studies, X-ray spectral fluorescence, ICP-MS analysis, and a scanning electron microscope with a dispersive microanalysis system, to measure the oxygen isotope composition. According to its quality characteristics, the nephrite was substandard. Here, uvarovite, which forms idiomorphic grains, sometimes sheath-like and less often xenomorphic elongated, and substituting the chromite, was commonly encountered. The nephrite was formed due to both metamorphic and metasomatic processes. The serpentinite was replaced by diopsidite, which was then replaced by nephrite. The metamorphism intensified the metasomatism of the serpentinite melange and provided the cryptocrystalline tangled-fibrous structure of the nephrite. Then, metamorphism and metasomatism led to the formation of omphacite and the cracking of the nephrite, which reduced its quality. As these processes progressed, the contribution of the crustal fluid increased.

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Namak Mandi: A Pioneering Gemstone Market in Pakistan

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Problems Faced by Online Gemstone Traders of NamakMandi market at Pakistani Airports

Problems Faced by Online Gemstone Traders of NamakMandi market at Pakistani Airports

Petrogenesis of Chatoyant Green Nephrite from Serpentinite-Related Deposits, Ospinsk, Russia: Insights from Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Nyrdvomenshor Nephrite Deposit, Polar Urals, Russia

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