Chumar Bakhoor

{{Short description|Gemstone mining area in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan}}

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{{Infobox mountain

| name = Chumar Bakor

| other_name = Chumar Bakor

| location = Sumayar Valley Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

| map = Pakistan

| coordinates = {{coord|36|13|33|N|74|40|37|E|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite web |title=Chumar Bakor, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan |url=https://www.mindat.org/loc-123425.html |website=Mindat.org |access-date=9 October 2022}}

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Chumar Bakor, also spelled Chumar Bakor, is a gemstone mining area located at an elevation of 5,520 meters in Sumayar Valley{{cite journal |last1=Appiani |first1=Roberto |title=Pink fluorite from an exceptional new find at Chumar Bakor, Pakistan |journal=The Mineralogical Record |date=2007 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=95–101}} of Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Geographically, it is also closer to the Oyum-Nagar (Nagarkhas). It takes a trek of 4 to 5 hours to reach the pegmatites that crop out on the western side of the mountain above 4,000 meters in elevation. Appiani (2007) states that according to (Blauwet and Shah, 2004) the gemstone deposits at Chumar Bakor were first discovered in 1984 by local hunter Muhammad Shah.{{cite journal |last1=Appiani |first1=Roberto |title=Pink fluorite from an exceptional new find at Chumar Bakor, Pakistan |journal=The Mineralogical Record |date=2007 |volume=38 |issue=2}} Chumar Bakor contains various precious and semi-precious gemstones such as aquamarine, fluorite, apatite, calcite, and quartz.{{cite journal |last1=Iftikhar |first1=Malik |last2=David |first2=Cohen |last3=Alistair |first3=Dunlop |title=Geochemical aspects of uranium in the Sumayar valley, northern areas of Pakistan |date=2004 |volume=37 |page=1-25 |journal=Geol. Bull. Univ. Peshawar |url=http://nceg.uop.edu.pk/GeologicalBulletin/Vol-37-2004/Vol-37-2004-Paper1.pdf}}