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round cut cassiterite from Bolivia

cassiterite

Its name comes from the Greek “kassiterôs”, tin, or the name of the islands “Cassiterides” that produced this tin ore in antiquity, very likely islands very close to present-day Spain that would have given their name to this tin mineral, cassiterite. It is the principal

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gem brookite crystal from Pakistan

brookite

Discovered in 1825 by Levy, its name honors the English mineralogist Henry James Brooke (1771-1857). It is a crystalline form of titanium oxide, such as rutile and anatase.

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fancy cut boracite

boracite

It takes its name from its boron content, it was discovered in Germany in Lower Saxony in 1789.

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beryllonite fancy cut

beryllonite

So called because of the presence of beryllium, it was named by James Dana in 1888.

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azurite from Morocco oval cut

azurite

Discovered in 1824 by Beudant Chessy-les-Mines in France, azurite takes its name from its azure blue. It has been known since antiquity, it is a copper carbonate, which effervesces with acids. It is often associated with malachite, green, in copper deposits, as azurite turns into

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yellow anglesite from Morocco emerald cut

anglesite

Its name comes from a locality in Wales (Great Britain): the island of Anglesey. Described in 1832 by French mineralogist François Sulpice Beudant as anglésine and then subsequently anglesite. There are varieties rich in silver or copper.

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