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Calcite from
Wadi Halamish, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wadi Halamish, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1531300
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1531300:5
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Calcite in this Region
Paralava outcrops, Wadi Halamish, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.8km (0.5 miles) ⓘParalava outcrops, Wadi Halamish, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘHalamish Quarry, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
2.5km (1.6 miles) ⓘParalava occurrence (2), Wadi Zohar, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
3.4km (2.1 miles) ⓘRoadside Arad – Dead Sea, Wadi Zohar, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
4.5km (2.8 miles) ⓘHanswilkeite type locality, Naẖal Gorer, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
5.2km (3.2 miles) ⓘClastic dikes, Gurim anticline, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
6.1km (3.8 miles) ⓘKahlenbergite occurrence, Har Parsa (Mt. Parsa), Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
7.5km (4.7 miles) ⓘEin Bokek, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
8.1km (5.1 miles) ⓘNahal Morag Canyon, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
8.3km (5.2 miles) ⓘAravaite type locality, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
References
Britvin, Sergey N., Vereshchagin, Oleg S., Shilovskikh, Vladimir V., Krzhizhanovskaya, Maria G., Gorelova, Liudmila A., Vlasenko, Natalia S., Pakhomova, Anna S., Zaitsev, Anatoly N., Zolotarev, Andrey A., Bykov, Maxim, Lozhkin, Maksim S., Nestola, Fabrizio (2021) Discovery of terrestrial allabogdanite (Fe,Ni)2P, and the effect of Ni and Mo substitution on the barringerite-allabogdanite high-pressure transition. American Mineralogist, 106 (6) 944-952 doi:10.2138/am-2021-7621
Galuskin, Evgeny V.; Galuskina, Irina; Kusz, Joachim; Vapnik, Yevgeny; Zieliński, Grzegorz (2025) Discovery of terrestrial rubinite, Ca3Ti3+2Si3O12, super-reduced garnet from the Hatrurim Complex, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 1-11 doi:10.1180/mgm.2025.3
 
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