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square cut bixbyite

bixbyite

Discovered in 1897 in Thomas Range in Utah, United States, its name honors the prospector and mineralogist Maynard Bixby (1853-1935) who was a minerals specialist from Utah.

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emerald cut amethyst from Madagascar

amethyst

It is a purple variety of quartz. Its name comes from the Greek “a” private and “methysto” meaning “ inebrietion ” wore as an amulet it was supposed to guard against drunkenness. The Greeks believed that drinking from a cup carved from this stone had

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rough amber from The Baltic sea in Poland

amber

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,

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sculpted alabaster from Italy

alabaster

Its name comes from the Greek “alabastros” (earlier albatos) which designated a vase without handles, alabaster being used to make perfume vases without handles. Alabaster is an evaporite mineral. It is a massive aggregate of fine-grained variety of gypsum, its softness make it easy to

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natural agate from Idar Oberstein

agate

This is a quartz, more exactly a transluscent chalcedony (itself a variety of cryptocrystalline quartz) which shows concentric bands sometimes containing opale. Comes in many colors, banded, forming concentric bands, more or less circular up to oval. Their formation is so far discuted : or

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