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India, Maharashtra

Panvel Quarries, India

Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: apophyllite, stilbite, heulandite.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: basalt zeolite cavities

Panvel-area trap quarries near Mumbai are documented zeolite localities in Deccan collector sources.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Blasting, unstable faces

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