Calcite the Deccan traps of India.
From: Rocks & Minerals
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Date: 3/1/2005
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Author: Ottens, Berthold
Calcite is one of the frequently occurring minerals in cavities within the basalts of the Deccan trap rocks of Maharashtra State, India. Striking yellow, or colorless and transparent, crystals, some in combination with apophyllite and stilbite are in great demand by collectors. Calcite is especially well known from the Malad quarries in the Mumbai (Bombay) * district for its variety of forms and from the Jalgaon district for the beautiful twins that occur in these quarries.
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