Je vous emmène à travers mes vidéos découvrir mon expérience acquise depuis plus de 30 ans a silloner le globe entier à la recherche de pierres précieuses, de rencontre mémorables mais aussi de difficulté parfois …
Andradite: this variety of garnet has been described and identified by Dana, its name is a tribute to a Brazilian mineralogist Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (1763-1838). Mélanite : black titanoan variety, its name comes from the Greek “black”. Topazolite : yellow variety of
Identified by Delametherie in 1798, it was named after a Spanish province, Andalusia, where it was found, near Almeria. Chiastolite the variety, also known as “Stone Cross” is a variety of opaque white to gray andalusite, which comes in elongated prisms which, when cut perpendicular
Its name comes from the Greek “anastasis” which means stretched, elongated, as the form of its bipyramid crystals. It was discovered in France, in Bourg d’Oisans in Isere, by Schreiber in the late eighteenth century, but it is Haüy who attributed its name in 1801.
