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Je vous emmène à travers mes vidéos découvrir mon expérience acquise depuis plus de 30 ans a silloner le globe entier à la recherche de pierres précieuses, de rencontre mémorables mais aussi de difficulté parfois …

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structure of an elephant tusk

ivory

Its name comes from the Latin ebur”, “eboris” which is an animal substance known since prehistoric times : the famous lady Brassempouy of the Saint-Germain-en-Laye Museum is famous worldwide, ivory has been used in antiquity, the middle ages, the renaissance period to the “art Deco”

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Ilmenite emerald cut

ilmenite

It is named after the Ilmen Mountains in Russia, where it was discovered in 1827.

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cabochon of howlite

howlite

Discovered in 1868 in California, its name honors the Canadian chemist H. How (1828-1879). Its porosity allows the dye it, but only in blue to imitate the turquoise. Cabochon cut, in its natural color it is wrongly called “white turquoise”.

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faceted hematite

hematite

It is also called blood or blood stone and his name probably comes from the fact that it turns blood red the cooling water when it is cut (from the Greek “haimatos” for blood). Note however a false-English friend: “bloodstone”, this English name is referred

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polished slice of goodletite from New Zeland

goodletite

This is a metamorphic rock composed of pink corundum (sapphire ruby almost) of margarite, of fuchsite with chromite and green tourmaline, its name honors William Goodlet. It is only found in southern New Zealand(Hokitika, Rimu). The name Goodletite refers only to this stone from New

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gadolinite emerald cut

gadolinite

Appointed in 1800 in honor of the Finnish mineralogist Johan Gadolin (1760-1852) who isolated the Yttrium element in 1797. This rare earth is used to imitate the diamond, synthetic zirconia oxide, to stabilize it in a cubic form at atmosphere temperature. Gadolinium is one of

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