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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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yellow milarite crystals from Jaquaraçu in Minas Gerais in Brazil

milarite

Kenngott in 1870 awarded it its name from its first assumed place of discovery: the Val Mila in Switzerland, but this is not certain.

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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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meliphanite crystal from Norway

meliphanite

Discovered in 1852, its name comes from the Greek, “which resembles to honey” in connection with its honey-yellow color.

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marcassite in quartz cut in cabochon

marcasite

Identified in 1845 by von Raidinger, it was found being different from pyrite by René-Just Haüy in the early nineteenth century. Its name comes from either the Arabic or Moorish to signify that it has a metallic color yellow. This is an iron sulphide containing

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