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villiaumite
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March 24, 2021
Its name honors Maxime Villiaume, French soldier and explorer who made collections of minerals from Madagascar and Guinea. The villiaumite was found in its samples coming from Guinea (Rouma Island). For gemologists: watch this stone has an significant polarization abnormality, while being isotropic.
variscite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
It recalls the old name of Vogtland (southern Saxony, Germany) called Variscia in Latin, where it was discovered in the valley of the Mess. A massive variety, found in the United States (Nevada,) with interpenetration of veinlets or quartz nodules and chalcedony, is called “amatrix”
ulexite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
Named in honor of the German chemist George Ulex (1811-1883). We notice a rare property: if the ends of a thick plate are well polished perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of its crystal fibers, they behave like optical fibers. A Printed text placed below appears
triphylite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
Its name comes from the Greek “tria” for 3 and “phylon” family to signify that it contains three cations because it was believed that it contained lithium, magnesium and iron.
