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muscovite crystals from Afghanistan

muscovite

Discovered by the famous mineralogist James Dwight Dana in 1850, it owes its name to the “glass of Moscow” (vitrum muscoviticum), as the large plates, heat-resistant were used as windows for stoves and furnaces in this region. The hardness varies from one to two depending

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oval cut montebrasite from Brazil

montebrasite

Close to amblygonite, ows its name to Montebras in France, in the Creuse. The majority of gems called “amblygonite” are chemically closer to the “ montebrasite “.

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baguette cut mesolite

mesolite

Discovered in 1816 in Sicily, its name comes from the Greek “mesos” meaning middle, because its composition is between that of natrolite and that of scolecite. Sometimes it resembles natrolite in its composition and its spherical clumps of acicular crystals.

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emerald cut magnesite from Brazil

magnesite

Described in 1808 by German mathematician Karsten (1768-1810), it owes its name to its component: magnesium and the town of Greece, Magnesia, where it came from.

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fancy cut hyalophane from Bosnia

hyalophane

Discovered in 1855, it owes its name to the Greek “hyalos” – glass-, and “Phanos” – which has the appearance.

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herderite crystal from Minas Gerais in Brazil

herderite

Its name honors the German mining engineer von Herder (1776-1838).

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