vayrynenite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
Its name honors the Finnish mineralogist Väyrynen who identified it in Finland but the pink samples and gems come from the Paproke mine in Afghanistan.
silicates
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aenigmatite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
Discovered in 1865 its name comes from Greek showing that its chemical formula was a real “mystery” to solve.
nephrite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
This is a thick microcrystalline rock the of amphibole family, we can consider nephrite as a microcrystalline variety of ferrous actinolite-tremolite series. The majority of nephrites are composed mainly of actinolite. The white variety, known as” mutton fat “, is composed almost exclusively of tremolite,
jadeite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
Its name comes from the term jade. It is the nineteenth century, in 1863, that jadeite was differentiated from nephritis. This is a pyroxene resulting from metamorphism of serpentines high in sodium. Before the nineteenth century both jadeite and nephrite were called with the generic
augite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
Its name, coming from Latin, was given by Werner and it means bright because the surfaces of its divisions are very bright. Amongst the pyroxenes, augite is a ferromagnesian silicate low in calcium. The fassaite variety is low in iron, the jeffersonite variety is rich
