Greetings from Kabul.

Yes there is lots of data on pegmatite occurrences in the Nuristan area.

Be careful, as the region includes not only Nuristan Province but also several neighbouring provinces.

I suggest you begin by looking in MInDAT and then in GEMDAT.

Also have a look at 'Rose of Asia' tourmaline

best regards Robin

Dear Robin,

Many thanks for your useful comment.

Truly Yours,

Masoud Ovissi

Dear Mr.Ovissi,

maybe these papers can be of help to you:

Bariand, P., Poullen, J.F., 1978. The pegmatites of Laghman, Nuristan, Afghanistan.Mineral. Rec. 301–308.

Fuchs, G., Matura, A., Scherman, O., 1974. Vorbericht über geologische und

Lagerstättenkundliche Untersuchungen in Nurestan, Afghanistan. Verhandlungen

der Österreich. Geol. Bundesanst. 1, 9–23.

Best regards

H. G. Dill

Dear Dr. Dill,

Many thanks for references. Unfortunately I could not find the first one but the second one is available on the web. Bariand and Poullen paper is cited by others and there is no file on the web. The Fuchs et al. paper is really complete and it can be the base of future works. But it was written in  1974 and the references therein just include 7 papers and works, showing few data which is available for the area. Is there any other work after Bariand and Poullen, and Fuchs et al. papers?

Truly Yours,

Masoud Ovissi

You may find some  information of use in my recent article for The Mineralogical Record published very recently.

Lyckberg Peter, 2017 The Mineralogical Record, Vol. 48, No. 5

September - October 2017 Gem pegmatites of northeastern Afghanistan

pg 610-675.  This special Issue is named "Afghan Pegmatites" and can be ordered for 25 USD plus shipping from http://www.minrec.org/detail.asp

You are also welcome to keep in touch. Tashakor.

Warm regards Peter Lyckberg

Dear Peter, 

Many thanks for your answer. That would be nice to read your paper. 

Kind Regards, 

Masoud Ovissi

Dear Mr. Ovissi,

I would like to add that several excellent descriptive papers have been published from work done by geologists from the former Soviet Union on the pegmatite districts of the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs., including Nuristan province, from the 1970's. I would particularly refer you to papers by LN Rossovskiy and Boris Shmakin, which describe the substantial sheeted spodumene pegmatites around this area. However, most, if not all of these are not freely available to download on the web. Some examples:

Rossovskiy, L. N., & Chmyrev, V. M. (1977). Distribution patterns of rare-metal pegmatites in the Hindu Kush (Afghanistan). International Geology Review, 19(5), 511-520.

Rossovskiy, L. N., Chmyrev, V. M., & Salakh, A. S. (1976). New fields and belts of rare-metal pegmatites in the Hindu Kush (Eastern Afghanistan). International Geology Review, 18(11), 1339-1342.

Rossovskyi, L. N., Chmyrev, V. M., & Salakh, A. S. (1976). Vertical range and zoning of spodumene pegmatite deposits in Afghanistan. In Dokl. Acad. Sci. USSR, Earth Sci. Sect (Vol. 227, pp. 85-87).

ROSSOVSKII, L., & Shmakin, B. M. (1978). UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF VERTICAL GEOCHEMICAL ZONALITY IN PEGMATITES OF HINDU KUSH (AFGHANISTAN). DOKLADY AKADEMII NAUK SSSR, 240(2), 448-451.

Salutations.

Dear Prof. Sweetapple,

Many thanks for your message. The mentioned papers are of lots of valuable data.

Thanks again.

Kind Regards,

Masoud Ovissi