Gem quality spinel deposits are located in the Baltit area of Hunza Valley, Gilgit Agency. The spinel occurrences are scattered over a 12-mile long arcuate belt between latitudes 36°17' N and 36°19' N and longitudes 74°32' E and 74°47' E, at an elevation ranging from 7,500 feet to 10,000 feet A.S.L. The spinel showings are located at five places: Saeed Kutsbull, Bajoring, Aliabad, Murang & Dagan Das, and Muhammadabad.
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Gem quality spinel deposits are located in the Baltit area of Hunza Valley, Gilgit Agency. The spinel occurrences are scattered over a 12-mile long arcuate belt between latitudes 36°17' N and 36°19' N and longitudes 74°32' E and 74°47' E, at an elevation ranging from 7,500 feet to 10,000 feet A.S.L. The spinel showings are located at five places: Saeed Kutsbull, Bajoring, Aliabad, Murang & Dagan Das, and Muhammadabad. Spinel in various shades of red and blue occurs as one of the accessory minerals of white and light grey metamorphosed crystalline limestone, associated with honey-coloured mica (phlogopite), pyrite, micaceous haematite and actinolite. The spinel occurs along foliation planes and as disseminated grains with other accessory minerals in crystalline limestone having a general strike of N80°W and dips ranging from 20° to 37° NE
