RAGEDARA MINE

Ragedara Graphite mine was the number 1 mine for producing graphite until end of the Second World War. It had produced the bulk of the production of the country. (Ragedara Mine Stands in the No.1 position in the British Mine Registry of Sri Lanka due to its production capacity at that time) The Graphite from Ragedara was tested as the most pure vein graphite in the world. (Analytical Reports of Superior Graphite and SGS) The Ragedara mine has the most concentrated number of veins and it had more than 30 graphite out crops in its own land. whereas the other major mines have only couple of vein out crops.