My fascination with the green continues here in Pune. For those of you who have read my poem ‘Green Maze’ will agree I guess.
Now if you have wandered in the Lonavla hills and the Pashan hills you will find this interesting. For those of you who has not, then you have the Pashankar Auto Showroom at Baner. Take some time out to climb those hills around this location. You will come across a green sort of crystal rock or rather small pieces of it. The hills are blasted frequently and left behind are these green pieces.
I am new in Pune so I have never seen anything like it before. I actually thought they were pieces of green cement like object. Leftovers of some construction may be.
Well, do you know that India's Deccan Traps are famous all over the world for many varieties of zeolites and associated minerals? The Lonavla quarry has produced fine specimens of green fluorapophyllite and some of the world's finest specimens of mesolite (after those of the Pashan Hill quarries). Some specimens of the beautiful blue vanadium minerals like cavansite and pentagonite were also found there recently. So the green colour comes from vanadium and not copper as I was thinking.
This information comes after a little research on the green rock fragments dotting the hills making them greener. The volcanic rocks of Pune and especially Pashan have high content of vanadium which imparts various shades of green to the apophyllite rocks.
Now if you have wandered in the Lonavla hills and the Pashan hills you will find this interesting. For those of you who has not, then you have the Pashankar Auto Showroom at Baner. Take some time out to climb those hills around this location. You will come across a green sort of crystal rock or rather small pieces of it. The hills are blasted frequently and left behind are these green pieces.
I am new in Pune so I have never seen anything like it before. I actually thought they were pieces of green cement like object. Leftovers of some construction may be.
Well, do you know that India's Deccan Traps are famous all over the world for many varieties of zeolites and associated minerals? The Lonavla quarry has produced fine specimens of green fluorapophyllite and some of the world's finest specimens of mesolite (after those of the Pashan Hill quarries). Some specimens of the beautiful blue vanadium minerals like cavansite and pentagonite were also found there recently. So the green colour comes from vanadium and not copper as I was thinking.
This information comes after a little research on the green rock fragments dotting the hills making them greener. The volcanic rocks of Pune and especially Pashan have high content of vanadium which imparts various shades of green to the apophyllite rocks.
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