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Fluorite from
Ajanta, Sillod, Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra, India


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz9 photos of Fluorite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ajanta, Sillod, Aurangabad District, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra, India
Photo GalleryView Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:753716
Long-form Identifier:1:3:753716:5
GUID (UUID V4):c2ce4ac6-a218-4fba-8308-bf7de0b625b4
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
formations to 30mm. 67x55x52mm. £45 3 CHALCOPYRITE, FLUORITE, Pyrite, Quartz, St Agnes, Cornwall. E x Sir A...70x46x35mm. £175 4 CAVANSITE Wagholi, Poona, Maharashtra, India. Crystal 20x19mm. 45x32x30mm. £85 5 SPHALERITE...village of Ajanta, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. Crystals to 10mm. 130x110x58mm. £65 8 FLUORITE Erongo...54x45x25mm. £85 9 FADEN QUARTZ Dara Ismael Khan District, Waziristan, Pakistan. Main crystals 25mm. 88x39x20mm...Camborne, Cornwall. 90x45x40mm. £75 11 CHALCOPYRITE, FLUORITE,and Quartz, St Agnes, Cornwall. E x Dr AF Seager
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
has been an abundance of mineral specimens from India appearing at mineral shows. Unfortunately, the locality...location was usually given as “Poona (also Poonah), India,” which is far from precise. Poona (now Pune) is...famous mineral localities belong to this area: Aurangabad, Mumbai, Jalgaon, and Nasik, to name a few. ...largest crystal about 3 mm, from Wagholi quarry, Maharashtra. Georges Claeys specimen, photo courtesy Eddy...(left). Map showing the Deccan Trap area of Maharashtra, India, prepared by Rik Dillen. Figure 4 (below)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2013 F or many years now the Deccan Plateau in India has been the source of quite remarkable and I thought...thought, until more recently, nearly unique fluorite specimens. These are hemispheres, for the most part...Neither of us had any idea at the time that it was fluorite; the dealer sold it to me as gyrolite, but I knew...of Delaware, I was stunned to learn that it was fluorite. Thinking that it may well have been absolutely...sold it quickly. Figure 2. Transparent yellow fluorite on quartz from the Mahodari quarry, Nasik. Specimen
Catalog/List
July2006 Oxford Sale £24 4 CALCITE Ajanta, Aurangabad, India. Crystals to 10mm. Unusual material from...occurrence. 71x45x31mm. 5 HEULANOITE Aurangabad, Maharastra, India. Main crystal 38mm. Lovely display piece...AQUAMARINE, SIDERITE & FLUORITE Erongo, Namibia. Aqua to 14mm. Quartz to 31mm. Fluorite to 10mm. Siderite...60x28x11mm. 9 FLUORITE & GALENA Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. Galena crystals to 22mm. Fluorite crystals to...locality. Large lustrous xtls. 40x36x34mm. £32 11 FLUORITE Emilio Mine. Caravla, Asturias, Spain. Crystals
Journal (issue)
leicht@kristalle.com Minerals of the DECCAN TRAPS INDIA by Berthold Ottens 2003 Published by the Mineralogical...Pashan Hills quarry no. 2 near Poona, Maharashtra state, India. Steve Smale collection and photo. Title...today as a national emblem for India. Archaeological Museum, Sa\rna\th, India. Frontispiece [this page]:...page]: Street scene in Lahore, India, early 1800’s. Author’s address: Berthold Ottens Klingenbrunn Bahnhof...and William Daniell in July, 1793 (Antiquities of India). 4 The Mineralogical Record, volume 34, January–February
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several small mines in the Beaverdell silver-mining district of southern British Columbia, near the village...50 km north of the U.S. border. Activity in the district began with a small "gold rush" in the late 1880s...list, 1984). NORTHWEST TERRJTORJES Port Radium district, Great Bear Lake. A deposit of uraninite (variety...silver from the El Bonanza mine in the Port Radium district, and the specimens briefly appeared on the market...Bayle, 20 I 0a). MEXICO Cata mine, Veta Grande district, Guanajuato. Specimens of acanthite from the Cata
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Crystal Fig 1a Octahedron Since the 4th century, India has been an early source of diamonds producing many...murder. Even the early Romans obtained stones from India and some of these can be seen to this day, set into...time the stones had to be shipped and sold through India. Now two and a half centuries later Brazil is still...EXPEDITION TO INDIA November/December 2004 Plans aie now firming up for our trip to India. Austin Woodbridge...Eleven days mineral collecting and sightseeing in Maharashtra. This is to include cc!!eLth :g in-a m:.ii 11b
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Articles Green apophyllite from Bidkin, Aurangabad, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 by S. Makki...he took a position as associate curator in the Division of Mineralogy and Petrology at the National Museum...Expo Center, Warren, Michigan New find of Green Fluorite, Naica, Mexico; mimetite, Mexico; and cobaltoan...Apophyllite rom Bidkin, Aurangabad, India ami Ma i M hamma F. Ma i Matrix India B-36 Abhimanshree Society...Society Pashan Road, Pune, 411008 India n late 200 an extraordinary cavern complex lined with green apophyllite
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imen because it had a few small dark bright green fluorite crystals associated. Aquamarines from Namibia...ro s ite fro m the Arrowhead c laim, Slic krock District. Uta h. T hese are of unus ually large crystals...ma tri x from the Mountain King Mi ne. Po to i District. Osgood Mo unt a ins. Humbo ldt Co unty. NY ....cry stals fro m near Johnny Gulch. Radersburg District. MT; and other self-collected Montana specimens...Mexico cabinet spec imens topaz (coated) from Organ District. Dona Ana Co.: ga lena and flu orite from Portales
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“Disco Balls” from Rahuri, India INTRODUCTION Maharashtra state in India has been known since the 1970’s...inside the huge pocket in the well in Momin Akhada, India. S. Makki photo. erals and several other associated...stilbite from the 2001 find in Momin Akhada, Rahuri, India. 13 cm tall. G. and J. Spann collection. The discoveries...of the rare situations in which specimens from India excited the whole collecting community. Continued...Continued on next page 2 “Disco Balls” from Rahuri, India Continued from page 1 (Strictly speaking and based
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Mineralogy of the Spring Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number...and 1909, the mines of the Last Chance mining district produced significant quantities of copper and... Contact us for a video catalog (DVD or VHS) FLUORITE on Pyrite, 11 cm, Huanzala mine, Peru. 238 Jeff...and spectacular specimens: Derbyshire galena and fluorite, Watson’s inlaid “tablets,” French axinite and...window the Duke had made from slabs of “Blue John” fluorite, as the Duke relates in his Handbook (1844–45):
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Powai, Mumbai 400076, India; vanitpatelfr@gmail.com Geological Survey of India, Central Region, State...State Unit Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur 482003, India Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’ Ambiente e delle...Scientific India Pvt. Ltd., Delphi, B Wing, Hiranandani Business Park, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India; gwjoshi@gmail...College, Mumbai 400001, India; hrishikesh.samant@xaviers.edu Geological Survey of India, Northeastern Region...Region, Shillong 793003, India; bibhas.sen@gmail.com Correspondence: hcsheth@iitb.ac.in (H.S.); ciro.cucciniello@unina
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Flood Basalts from the Deccan Volcanic Province, India Berthold Ottens 1, *, Jens Götze 2 , Ralf Schuster...close toclose the city of city Jalgaon (Maharashtra, India)India) as well as neighboring occurrences in...of Jalgaon (Maharashtra, as well as neighboring occurrences in the State Maharashtra, India, were investigated...mineralization processes of the secondary minerals of Maharashtra, India, were investigated to reveal the mineralization...DVP1).(Figure 1). Figure Province (DVP), (DVP), India. India. Figure 1. 1. Map Map of of the the western
Book
Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...of rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning...testing to be hematite. Zagi [Zegi] Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings...to 6 cm (2005: 120). Los Remedios mine, Taxco district, Taxco, Guerrero. Ilvaite occurs in the wallrock...Taxco district, commonly as compact aggregates of crystals overgrown by rhodochrosite and fluorite. Sharp
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Book
from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Fluorite crystals from the People's Republic of China Pages...ple, contains microcrystals of mica, calcite and fluorite, while detergents contain such mineral additives...quartz and spinel. Penetrating twins are typical in fluorite, pyrite and orthoclase; polysynthetic twins are...penetration, crystals of cassiterite twinned by contact; fluorite crystal, a classical example of penetration twins...hardness lfar leftI. Mineral Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond
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Limoeiro Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara~uaf Pegmatite District, . Minas Gerais, Brazil, Michael A. Menzies Signature...5 cm, Limoeiro mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara<;uar district, Minas Gerais, Brazil; private collection, Jeff...• Markus Raschke - The South Platte Pegmatite District of Colorado: New Insights into Mineralogy, Petrogenesis...phenomenal aquamarine specimens from the Skardu district, Pakistan. Because of their relative importance...Pala Chief, and Elizabeth R mines in the Pala district, this early period remains the most productive
Book
Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Distributed by...arranged my trip to the Deccan traps in northwestern India, negotiating with drivers and guides alike. I could...little predators were brought in deliberately from India to catch rats, themselves another intro- 38 EeAw...Cook recorded in 1778: “The coast of the Kau district presents a prospect of the most horrid and dreary...Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral, located near India in that eccentric geography.) Perhaps the memory
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF INDIA CATALOGUE SERIES No.4 ATLAS OF GRANITES OF SOUTHERN UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA Contributions...Contributions from Compiled by Geological Survey of India, Northern Region, Lucknow and Directorate of Geology...Published by order of the Government of India Lucknow 2001 © India, Geological Survey (2001) Manuscript...and Supervision R.K. Singh Director Publication Division, Northern Region, G.S.I., Lucknow Under the Overall...Sector-M, Aliganj, Lucknow - 226001 Printed in India at MIs. Rohitashva Printers, 268 - Aishbagh Road
Report (volume)
V G.S., F.A.S.B., Ofreoton Ceologitwl Survey of India .WIH'" Zonal distribution and def^cription of the...Kirthar senes (middle Eocene) of parts of Western India. By W. 1., F, NuttaK. D F.C., M.Am F,C.3.. Sedgwick...SHi^ k»f;$ MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. Vox., ■fot. fou Vot. Vcik Vofc. yot. tou...Ge'ilogigal stim'tuic of central portion of Hcrbndda District.-Tertiary auJ alliivial depoaits of central pfirtiOn...and prob.able age of systems of rocks in Central India and Bengaf, III. I't. I, 1861 (out of print) \piice
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sq. ft. facilitv will house both our mail order division and retail outlet, which without a doubt will...your nearest Inter-Lok dealer VANGUARD ABRASIVE DIVISION FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION LENT A VENUE • LeROY...Hematite limonite Stibnite Orpimenl Enorgile Chromite Fluorite Cinnabar Brounile GROUP No. 2 Purpurile Amozonlle...total SPECIMEN SPECIAL FLUORITE • JURA, FRANCE • RAREIII - Superior Fluorite octahedrons. Super selected...Cuprite Danburite xi Dolomite Enargite Enstatite Fluorite Gadolinite Galena Goethite Graphite Grossular
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limonite Stibnlte Orpiment Enorg lte Chromite Fluorite Cinnabar Brounite • Bentonite Celestine Scheelite...have a full report next issue. For Visitors to India Kits ... $14.95 prepaid California Residents add...is 56 Rajendra Nagar, New ldgah Colony, Agra 1, India, phone 75228. Care of Pearls Cultured pearls strung...Oregon to Salem. I wrote to the Travel Information Division, Oregon State Highway Department, Salem, in regards...thunder egg's knobby Elliot Parker (right) , division geologist of the Oregon State Highway Department
 
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