| Locality type: | Valley |
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| Species: | Calcite |
| Formula: | CaCO3 |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Hercynite | ⓘ1 photo of Calcite associated with Hercynite at this locality. |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Calcite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Kaluganga valley, Ratnapura, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 676883 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:676883:6 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | dcb72756-18c1-435f-807a-5b1e27e8e03a |
| Nearest other occurrences of Calcite |
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| 44.2km (27.5 miles) | ⓘBogala Mine, Bogala, Kegalle District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka |
| 77.6km (48.2 miles) | ⓘKandy, Kandy District, Central Province, Sri Lanka |
| 83.9km (52.1 miles) | ⓘGiant Crystal Quarry, Embilipitiya, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka |
| 92.0km (57.2 miles) | ⓘKavisigamuwa carbonatite, Kurunegala District, North Western Province, Sri Lanka |
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 | | Journal (issue) | | (Brazil and Colombia), central and southern Asia (Sri Lanka, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, and China)...come from a number of sources, but predominantly Sri Lanka. Accented with smaller diamonds, the 129 gem corundums...Deposits in Afghanistan (Panjshir Valley) and Pakistan (Swat Valley) produced fine-quality emeralds of...Boehm, March 1993. the alluvial gem fields of Sri Lanka and the pegmatite districts of Brazil. Efforts...Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka; again, see figure 1). Although mining continued |  | | 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 |
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