Abbotabad & Mansehra Region:This region along with adjacent area was subjected to mountain-building in Early Cambrian times (500 million years ago) and granitization took place over large areas of the order of thousands of Square Kilometers Apart from the major end-product granite a number of intermediate products were also generated in peripheral areas viz. 

Iron ore and Manganese ore deposits.

Carbonatite deposits in Swat and Malakand.

Fluorite deposits and Fluorite granite in Malakand.
Nepheline Syenite and Sodalite Syenite in Swat.
Wolfram minerals in Mansehra.
Soapstone and Talc deposits in Abbotabad.

Magnesium-laden emanations from rocks being granitized, altered the lime stones to Soapstone or Talc as a response to environmental conditions, purity of the emanations & limestones, susceptibility to metamorphism, temperature and pressure conditions, duration of metamorphic episode etc.