Best places: Mines in Galle District

👍👍 Not untwisted a small working mine with a light tourist orientation. Operates, according to the Sri Lankans, more than 30 years. The classical tourist program: here we dig, here we dig, here - mine, and here - we fly, we smash, we again lay, we send and here ready-made products - is present. Only b...

😠 It’s a nice tour, however, there are some things you should know. I researched it after I went and this is what I discovered: 1. They are not entirely honest with what stones are from their mine, and what stones are brought in from outside. The only stone to be found in the mine is white moonstone....

👍👍 Moonstone, considered to be the most valuable variety of feldspar, is the opalescent variety of orthoclase (an opaque to transparent potassium feldspar). Its schiller or adularescence is caused by the intergrowth of two different types of feldspar, with different refractive indexes. Like labradorite...