Beruwala: China Fort (Paththe) open gem market

Where: India & Indian Ocean · Asia · approx. 6.47, 79.98 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: centuries-old Moor gem-trading quarter on the southwest coast, one of Sri Lanka's open street gem markets

What turns up: buy-side: sapphire, spinel, garnet, zircon, chrysoberyl rough and cut, traded curbside

Access: Open / legal.

Buying is legal; export of rough over set values needs NGJA paperwork, and unlicensed dealing or mining is not. Know your stones or bring a gemologist, synthetics circulate

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.