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andalusite
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March 24, 2021
Identified by Delametherie in 1798, it was named after a Spanish province, Andalusia, where it was found, near Almeria. Chiastolite the variety, also known as “Stone Cross” is a variety of opaque white to gray andalusite, which comes in elongated prisms which, when cut perpendicular
amber
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March 24, 2021
It is a product of plant origin, the fossilized resin of some conifers (pine, redwood, cypress, cedar …) and some angiosperms (legumes, Umbelliferae, Liliaceae). The amber from the Dominican Republic was produced by a kind of tropical tree, now extinct, ancestor of the carob tree,
amblygonite
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March 24, 2021
The German mineralogist Breithaupt described and identified it in 1817. Its name comes from the angle formed at its cleavage, in Greek “Amblus” meaning “obtuse” and “Gonia” which means “angle”, as opposed to scapolite with which it was often confused. It forms a continuous series
alexandrite
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March 24, 2021
It is the rariest chrysoberyl variety, named after the future Czar Alexander II because it was discovered in the Ural in 1830, on the day he came of age and because of its 2 colors : green and red were the colors of old Imperialist
