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pink fluorite from Brazil cushion cut

fluorite

It is known since antiquity, its name comes from the Latin verb “fluere” which means “ to flow “ because it was already used as a flux in metallurgy. The composition evokes the name of this mineral: it contains fluorine, an element which was so

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“ De Beers Centenary “ diamond

diamond

This gem, the best known and most prestigious, is named after its hardness, “adamant” in Greek, which means unconquerable because there are no known naturally occurring minerals that are harder than it. Pure and white, it has an incomparable brilliance, and it sparkles in all

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red cuprite from Namibia oval cut

cuprite

Its name comes from the Latin “Cuprum” which means copper, it was discovered by von Haidinger in 1845. The chaloctrichite is a form that looks like thin hair hence the name derived from Greek (copper hair). There are massive varieties mixed with chrysocolla and tenorite

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oval cut carrollite of Congo

carrollite

Its name comes from the locality where it was identified by Faber in 1852: the Patapsco mine in Carroll County, Maryland in the United States. It is part of the linnaeïtes, it forms a series with the violarite, the polydymite, the siegenite according to the

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twinned boleite crystals from Boleo, Mexico

boleite

It is named after its place of discovery: Boleo, Baja California, Mexico. It was identified by Mallard and Cumenge in 1897.

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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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