silicates
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peridot
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March 24, 2021
Formerly this mineral was called chrysolite, although the “chrysolitus” of Pliny was probably referred to topaz, a “yellow stone”, a “golden stone”. Also called ” stones of knights ” because it would be the crusaders who brought peridot from the east to europe where it
pectolite
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March 24, 2021
The blue and white larimar is the only variety of this stone sought. Known since the early twentieth century, the blue variety of volcanic origin was rediscovered in 1974 in the Dominican Republic. Its name was assigned by its discoverer Miguel Mendez: Lari (the beginning
palygorskite
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March 24, 2021
Identified in 1862, its name comes from that of a deposit in the Urals in Russia. Sometimes called “angel skin opal” because of its resemblance, but it’s not an opal.
