conchoidal

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emerald cut shortite

shortite

Discovered in 1939, it honors the name of American mineralogist Maxwell Naylor Short (1889-1952).

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African serpentine oval cut

serpentine

Serpentine, or rather the serpentines, is a group of over 20 minerals quite difficult to differentiate the one from the other, the best known of whom are : antigorite, chrysotile and lizardite. These Phyllosilicates are weathering products of magnesium silicates. The Ophite, sometimes called “ophite

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emerald cut sellaite

sellaite

Discovered in France in 1868, it honors the name of the Italian mineralogist Quintino Sella (1827-1884). This is a fluoride such as fluorite, but of magnesium.

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scorzalite round cut

scorzalite

Discovered in 1957 in Brazil (Corrego Firo pegmatite, Linopolis, Doce valley, Minas Gerais). Its name honors the Brazilian geologist who discovered it: Evaristo Penna Scorza (1899-1969).

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scapolite from Tanzania drop cut

scapolite

It owes its name to its prismatic facies (from the Greek “skapos” rod and “lithos”, stone) and designates an isomorphic series going from sodic marialite to calcic meionite. The members of this series are the Wernerite, the Dipyre, the Meionite, the Marialite. The Wernerite, which

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rutile as inclusions in quartz

rutile

Discovered by Werner in 1803 he was named after the Latin “rutilus” which means red. This is a titanium oxide as brookite and anatase, which crystallize in different crystal systems. The fibrous variety that forms tiny needles was called Sagenite.

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