 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pyrite, sphene, and sometimes felspar, calcite, and spinel; the dominant mineral is the pale green or grey...carbonates in parts of the dykes, especially at Ella (Uva) and Kadawat Oya (Sab.) ; when it becomes abundant...various times during the last two years. 1. At Ella (Uva) are interesting exposures (Fig. I, PL XX, p. 366)...diopside with a trace of plagioclase and green spinel. A junction section (1068) at cp (Fig. II) showed...stream entering the Badulla Oya from its right bank, about 8^ miles from Badulla and near Nanla. The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | phlogopite, spinel, and graphite ; green chert, with abundant mica and graphite, and less frequent spinel; and...limestone, x 22. C, carbonate (dolomite); M, mica ; S, spinel ; remainder, opaline silica. Five thin sections...include graphite and abundant and characteristic spinel, colourless in the DECADE V.āVOL. I . NO. I ....abundance of hydrated phlogopite and a few grains of spinel are also found. The silica has penetrated along...met with in other parts of Ceylon, e.g. in the Uva Province, although their connection with crystalline |  | | Journal (issue) | | 28 ct blue spinel, (6) 1.17 ct benitoite, (7) 2.14 ct blue sapphire, (8) 23.18 ct blue spinel, (9) 4.82...8.04 ct orange sapphire, and (18) 3.48 ct pink spinel. The necklace contains 25.85 ct of radiant-cut...(Brazil and Colombia), central and southern Asia (Sri Lanka, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, and China)...[both jadeite and nephrite], opal, peridot, quartz, spinel, tanzanite, topaz, and tourmaline). Locality information...come from a number of sources, but predominantly Sri Lanka. Accented with smaller diamonds, the 129 gem corundums |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pan-African event in East Antarctica: a view from Sri Lanka and the Mozambique Belt Leo M. Kriegsman F~~culty...Pan-African ( - 580-550 Ma) high-grade deformation of the Sri Lankan basement gave rise to a fold-and-thrust belt...simultaneous sinistral strike-slip along a -N-S-trending Sri Lanka prior to Gondwana break-up. The resulting geometry...indenting of the basement underneath eastern Sri Lanka during collision. In Gondwana reconstructions...the position of Sri Lanka in Gondwana and favour reconstructions in which Sri Lanka is located near the |  | | Book | | extensive native plantations in the Northern Province, especially in the Jaffna Peninsula and the outlying...and December, the rainy season of the Northern Province. Sugar or ājaggery ā is prepared from sweet toddy...stone inthe Western Province, or of tamarind wood in the North-Central Province; in this a heavy pesile...to one family of ivory workers in the Kegalla District. The little figures of the last King of Kandy...Chief Priest are said to be contemporary portraits. Sri Wikrama Raja Sinha was the last king of the Suluwansa |  | He, Xiao-Fang, Hand, Martin, Santosh, M., Kelsey, David E., Morrissey, Laura J., Tsunogae, T. (2018) Long-lived metamorphic PāTāt evolution of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka: Insights from mafic granulites. Precambrian Research, 316. 227-243 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.08.008 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | metamorphic PāTāt evolution of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka: insights from mafic granulites Xiao-Fang He,...metamorphic PāTāt evolution of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka: insights from mafic granulites, Precambrian Research...metamorphic PāTāt evolution of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka: insights from mafic granulites Xiao-Fang He1...Geosciences Beijing, No. 29 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China 2 Department of Earth...Tel.: +86-13436391699. 1|P a g e ABSTRACT Sri Lanka is composed of four major tectonic units known |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ā¢ Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ā¢ Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...Auction 3 52001 HEMATITE Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy If there was ever a specimen that...POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, ChaƱaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile Terry Szenics has been...FLUORITE Dalānegorsk Tetyuche, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia It |  | | Journal (issue) | | ISSUE 30 Cover image: Boy with lotus flower in Sri Lanka. Picture: Ā© 2012 Richard W. Hughes/Lotus Gemology...Exhibition Worldāŗs Largest Blue Star Sapphire Found in Sri Lanka Mining 20 16 The Pinks! 2015 Argyle Pink Diamonds...30 Pretty Padparadscha Auctions 42 46 Hope Spinel Sells For Record Figure Jewel of Kashmir Stand-Out...Exhibition Worldās Largest Blue Star Sapphire Found in Sri Lanka A fine opal will be publicly worldās opals...most unique South Australiaās inland sea acted as Sri Lankan gemologists say that the and fascinating |  | | Journal (issue) | | 5 JANUARY 1977 KORNERUPINE CAT'S-EYES FROM SRI LANKA (CEYLON) By H. J. KOREVAAR, F.G.A., Ter Aar, Netherlands...year one of the authors (Korevaar), visiting Sri Lanka, bought a parcel of 125 cat's-eyes from a gem...originate from the Weligama gem gravels in the Matara district. Back in Holland, Korevaar contacted the Dutch...are all small. Moreover, on a recent trip to Sri Lanka in February 1976, the authors noticed a lot of...Tanzania, as well as in an almandine garnet from Sri Lanka (Zwaan, 1967). He has also found similar graphite |  | | Journal (issue) | | instrumentation such as LA-ICPMSāonce primarily the province of academiaābecame a fixture in many gemological...were combined under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey 168 PRODUCTION AND MARKETS...price and grew ever scarcer in world markets, red spinel and pink-to-red tourmaline became sought-after...addition to the traditional spinel sources of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Myanmar (spinel, if polished elsewhere...start operations at the Kagem mine in the Kafubu District, historically Zambiaās largest source of emeralds |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Dumbara, and Matale. The fifth ocettrs in the Badulla District.' (Op. tit. pp. 42-~3.) I m a y say t h a...s calcite, dolomite, blue apatite, phlogopite, spinel, p y r r h o t i n e , a n d c h o n d r o d i...forsterite), and white serpentine, recording also spinel, pyrite, and magnetite. In the same year the present...regards the forsterite, chondrodite, phlogopite, and spinel which they contain as contactminerals. :He associates...expedition to Ceylon, suggests that the corundum and spinel found 1 'Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Gesteine u. |  | | Journal (issue) | | jadeite (green), peridot, spinel (red, green, blue and synthetic blue spinel) and zircon (high and low...supplier, the fluorite was mined from Cao Bang Province, northeast of Yen Bai. The crystal surfaces were...29.05 ct fluorite is reportedly from Cao Bang Province in northern Vietnam. Photo by Bilal Mahmood. ...yellow-green grossular from Kambanga, Taita-Taveta District, Voi, Kenya, is notable for having a significantly...at the Tourmaline Queen mine, also in the Pala District (e.g. Larson, 2012). So far, approximately three |  | | Journal (issue) | | identification was provided by a careful reading on the spinel refractometer, which showed the stone to be uniaxial...mainly occur as discrete individual crystals; only spinel minerals a n d olivine-chromite occur a t places...Majhgawan ( 2 4 Ā° 3 8 ' N : 8 0 Ā° 4 ' E ) in P a n n a district, M a d h y a Pradesh, and its geology has been...irregular dark inclusions, which mainly belong to the spinel group, are crystals of 159 l la a Ib lb FIG....the Majhgawan d i a m o n d deposits P a n n a district, M a d h y a Pradesh, Bull. Series A, No. 2 1 |  | | Journal (issue) | | from Guyana Surface Features of Ekanite from Sri Lanka A Study of Gems from Napoleon IIIās Crown A New...EDITORIAL 137 Diamonds from Guyana, Ekanite from Sri Lanka, a New Amber Source in Vietnam, and More... Duncan...characteristics of ekanite from secondary deposits in Sri Lanka. 168 A Gemological and Spectroscopic Study with...0016-626X Diamonds from Guyana, Ekanite from Sri Lanka, a New Amber Source in Vietnam, and More... Welcome...uneven shapes and surface features of ekanite from Sri Lanka. Lutz Nasdala and his team analyze ekanite fragments |  | | Journal (issue) | | centers are located in South Africa! Brazil, Chinal Sri Laillzal North and East Africa! Thailand! and elsewhere...Diamonds: An Update Inclusions in Taaffeites from Sri Lanka Magnetic Properties of Gem-Quality Synthetic Diamonds...Brazil: The Tourmalines of the Governador Valadares District The Eyepiece Pointer Winter 1985 A Status Report...Resources of China The Changma Diamond District, Mengyin, Shandong Province, China Gemstone Carving in China:...Chinese Peridot The Sapphires of Mingxi, Fujian Province, China Summer 1986 The Coscuez Mine: A Major Source |  | | Book | | Enterprise as carried on, chiefiy in the Sabaragamuwa district; to the splendid opportunity presented for the...round off the list of precious things for which Lanka and Serendib have been famous from time immemorial...Crystal .. 29, 30, 96 Cupellation .. . 39 .140 Badulla (jrOlcl in Ceylon 64, 106 Baker, Sir S., on .....144 Specimens, Geological and Mineral"ogical .129 Spinel ... ...30, 98, 140 Stahlstein . 32 Stampers, Cost...we mentioned that gentlemen connected with the Lanka Plantations Company in London were interesting themĀ¬ |  | | Book | | Major sources: Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, Kenya, Tanzania, Montana and...Stone Tract in Upper Burma to the gem gravels of Sri Lanka, we find the historical occurrences of rubies...Burma 67 Sapphire - Burma 75 Ruby and sapphire - Sri Lanka 77 Ruby - Thailand and Cambodia 80 Sapphire -...273 Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 273 History 273 Mining areas 276 Mining methods 278 The market in Sri Lanka 280...with many other red stones, such as garnet and spinel ('ballas ruby'). The sapphire was listed under |  | | Book | | finest star ruby on public display. A product of Sri Lanka's gem gravels, today it resides at the Smithsonian...origin is uncertain, but probably emanates from Sri Lanka. Today it rests in New York's Amer1can Museum...473 History 474 Luc Yen 474 Quy Chau (Bu Khang District) 475 Other Vietnam corundu.n1 localities 478 Mining...History 390 Ruby & sapphire variecies 395 Origin of Sri Lanka's corundum deposits 395 Mining areas 396 Mining...marker in Sri Lanka 399 Characteristics of Sri Lanka.n corundLm1s 402 Bibliography- Sri Lanka 405 C Ruby |  | | Journal (issue) | | was also known in alexandrite, garnet, corundum, spinel, zircon, fluorite, kyanite and diaspore. Bernstein...occur in the John Saul ruby mine, Taita-Taveta District, Kenya (Simonet, 2000) which is located just north...corundum from Sri Lanka, and reversion to red by cooling. Thermochromy in corundum and spinel has been thoroughly...same feature was seen in the facets of deep blue spinel. Figure 5: Dispersion colours in facets of 18...of four green tourmalines from the Taita-Taveta District, Kenya. For the present study, the contents of |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral inclusions without specific orientation Sri Lanka aquamarine six-rayed thin fluid films on planes...different localities in Brazil as well as from Sri Lanka and Madagascar 1,740,11,12,13,14,15. Microscopic...of a heat-treated natural yellow sapphire from Sri Lanka with E perpendicular to c-axis (o-ray, black)...Sapphires of this group originate for example from Sri Lanka. The spectrum E (the electric vector of light)...identical to those of natural yellow sapphires from Sri Lanka, while Mg by itself stabilizes another kind of |  | | Journal (issue) | | College, London, discussed their method of growing spinel crystals from solution in lead fluoride. T h e...detailed investigation of the 117 quality of the spinel crystals. T h e lattice parameter varied from 8-079...way the "wavy extinction" exhibited by synthetic spinel in polarized light. W i t h a lower magnification...of synthetic ruby as a laser material. Synthetic spinel and strontium titanate are briefly mentioned in...which might enable them to be recognized. Synthetic spinel, both in its popular " a q u a m a r i n e " colour |  | | Journal (issue) | | range on the basin of the river Kitayama in Kii province, there are many fantastic rocks and stones of...chrysoberyl, peridot, tourmaline, topaz, zircon, quartz, spinel and beryls. These together with opal, pearl, and...cushion-shaped stone. At first glance it could be a fancy spinel, a tourmaline or perhaps a pink topaz. Doing the...h e locality, presumably in the Minais Gerais district, is given as Agua Vermehla, with the mine n a... Hatfield, Herts. Westall, Erica (Miss), Cape Province, S. Africa Farringer, Dale E., Annandale, Va |  | | Book (volume) | | Drosdov and A.P. Turinge 331 Gems deposits of Sri Lanka E. Gaminee Zoysa 343 Precious and semi-precious...formation were found in Mimecha-Kotui carbonatite province. This deposits are not mining yet for their difficult...modern quartz sand from iron in Pinar-del-Rio province, Cuba. Quartz sand places on the lowland derived...operation in Khingan brucite =magnesite= bearing province, Khabarovsk Territory, USSR. There are small brucitite...part in the Khingan brucite =magnesite= bearing province within Bureinskii old massif . The Amurskaya (presumably |  | | Journal (issue) | | calcite, from the arsenic mine near Shimen in Hunan Province, China. Mike Bergmann specimen; photo by Jeff...f 21 unpatented claims in the B anner m ining district, Gila C ounty, Arizona. T he group includes the...ont M ining C orporation becam e involved in the district around 1960 (Ramsey, 1973; H ausen, 1982) and...arry -G o o d H ope areas, M aggie C reek m ining district, Nevada. Newmont Exploration Ltd., internal report...at the Childs Aldwinkle m ine, C opper C reek district, Pinal County. T he occurrence is unusual in that |  | | Catalog/List | | Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street ā¢ Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518...department. It will be held in the Dallas Design district at 1518 Slocum Street on June 2, 2013. The auction...after LAUMONTITE with APOPHYLLITE Mumbai District (Bombay District), Maharashtra, India Three minerals makeup...87004 KROEHNKITE Chuquicamata Mine, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile A very sizable, old...Cornelia Mine (Ajo Mine), Ajo, Little Ajo Mts, Ajo District, Pima Co., Arizona, USA This Malachite pseudomorph |
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Badulla, Badulla District, Uva Province, Sri Lanka