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Navoi, Samarqand Region

Lyangar scheelite skarn

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: scheelite, molybdenite, vesuvianite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Nuratau range tungsten-molybdenum skarn mined in the Soviet decades

Documented classic Central Asian skarn locality.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

open cuts, remoteness

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