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Salem / Tamil Nadu magnesite-corundum

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: Corundum, magnesite, chromite in ultramafics.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Precambrian ultramafic/charnockite

Corundum and magnesite district

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