Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Southern Province, Sri Lanka

mindat Locality ID: 123074
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-123074.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Southern Province, Sri Lanka": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Galle District
Hambantota District
Matara District
Meetiyagoda (Mitiyagoda)

Latitude: 6°14'13"N
Longitude: 80°15'17"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 6.2369444444444,80.254722222222

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Amorphous	Corundum	Fluorite	Garnet	Kornerupine	Marcasite	Monazite	None	Olivine	Quartz
Rutile	Titanite	Zircon

Almandine ()*	Chrysoberyl ()*	Graphite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kornerupine ()*
Marcasite ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Opal ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Thorianite ()*	Titanite ()*	Zircon ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al B Be C Ca Ce F Fe H Mg O P S Si Th Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Corundum Fluorite Garnet Kornerupine Marcasite Monazite None Olivine Quartz
Rutile Titanite Zircon

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2	110996,110997	2353
Chrysoberyl ()*	Olivine	BeAl₂O₄	1	111002	321
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	111004	2812
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	110997	5433
Kornerupine ()*	Kornerupine	(Mg,Fe²⁺,Al, )₁₀(Si,Al,B)₅O₂₁(OH,F)₂	1	111003	68
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	111004	5674
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	2	110996,110997	945
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	111004	2994
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	111004	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	2	110996,110997	5614
Thorianite ()*	Fluorite	ThO₂	2	110996,110998	236
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	110996	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	110996,110997	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R100152	Matara, Matara District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka	https://rruff.info/R100152

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