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LocalitiesGowinggo Mine, Kail, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan

3rd Jul 2014 21:39 UTCJosé Zendrera 🌟 Manager

This is a confusing locality. It was created as "Gowinggo Mine, Kail, Azad, Jammu and Kashmir, India". Later changed to "Gowinggo Mine, Kail, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan" and later to "Gowinggo Mine, Kail, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North-West Frontier Province), Pakistan".

Searching in the web there is not any reference of "Gowinggo Mine". I arrived to find two small hamlets called "Kail" in Jammu, India, but no references to mines or tourmaline outcrops there. The only reference of a place known as "Kail" in Pakistan I could find is: http://travelingluck.com/Asia/Pakistan/North-West+Frontier/_1373902_Kail.html , which is not very clear.

There is only three specimen photos from this locality, all uploaded by Rob Lavinsky in March 2010, who says that these elbaites look like Nepalese specimens...

India, Pakistan, Nepal... too many countries mentioned for just 3 photos...

Maybe would be appropriate to mention this uncertainty in the locality page waiting to more reliable data.
 
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