Things to find in Pakistan

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• Katlang pink topaz Gem & mineral ground
  The hills at Katlang in Mardan, Pakistan, are the world’s premier source of natural pink and sherry topaz, dug from small hand-worked adits in the marble and sold through Peshawar. Untreated natural pink topaz is genuinely rare,...
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• Khewra Salt Mine Cave
  The second-largest salt mine in the world, in the Punjab of Pakistan, worked since the armies of Alexander noticed their horses licking the rocks. Nineteen storeys run into the mountain, and the miners have carved mosques, a...
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• Shigar Valley pegmatites Gem & mineral ground
  The Karakoram of northern Pakistan holds some of the finest gem pegmatites on Earth: the Shigar and Braldu valleys near Skardu produce first-rate aquamarine, pink and golden topaz, tourmaline and fluorite, dug at altitude by...
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