Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Embilipitiya (Embilipitya; Ambilipitiya), Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka

mindat Locality ID: 214410
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-214410.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Embilipitiya (Embilipitya; Ambilipitiya), Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Giant Crystal Quarry
Kolonne (Kolonna; "Kollonne")

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Calcite	Clay	Mica	None	Olivine	Pyrite	Quartz	Sapphirine	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel
Titanite	Tourmaline	Zircon

Calcite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Hercynite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Phlogopite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Saponite ()*	Sapphirine ()*	Schorl ()*
Serendibite ()*	Spinel ()*	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 C Ca Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Clay Mica None Olivine Pyrite Quartz Sapphirine Smectite-vermiculite Spinel
Titanite Tourmaline Zircon

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	110969,110971	27770
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	2	110969,110971	1188
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	1	110971	407
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	110971	14899
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	110971	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	110971	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	110971	61156
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	110971	301
Sapphirine ()*	Sapphirine	Mg₄(Mg₃Al₉)O₄[Si₃Al₉O₃₆]	1	110971	129
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	110971	2705
Serendibite ()*	Sapphirine	Ca₄[Mg₆Al₆]O₄[Si₆B₃Al₃O₃₆]	1	110971	19
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	110971	1934
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	110971	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	110969,110971	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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