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![yellow meionite from Madagascar](https://www.patrickvoillot.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/meionite-taille-emeraude-madagascar125.png)
![emerald cut magnesite from Brazil](https://www.patrickvoillot.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/magnesite-taille-emeraude-bresil131.png)
![green ludlamite crystal from Salsigne in France](https://www.patrickvoillot.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ludlamite-cristaux-salsigne-france138.png)
![cabochon cut lepidolite](https://www.patrickvoillot.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/lepidolite-cabochon133.png)
lepidolite
Its name comes from the Greek “lepidos” for scale and “lithos” meaning stone, meaning a stone formed of scales stacked in staircase shape. Discovered in Moravia, Czech Republic, it is very close to another mica called muscovite, and for some it is not really a
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kammererite
It was identified in 1841 by the Finnish mineralogist Nordenskiöld. Its name honors the Russian mining engineer Kammerer from St. Petersburg. The kammérérite, of a beautiful fuchsia pink, is a chromian variety of clinochlore whose name comes the Greek “klino”, for its oblique axis tilted
![blue hemimorphite cabochon from D.R.Congo](https://www.patrickvoillot.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hemimorphite-cabochon-congo160.png)
hemimorphite
Its name comes from the Greek “hemi,” half and “morpho” to form, due to the different shape of the tip of its doubly terminated crystals. It was identified by Kenngott in 1853. There is a “matrix” form blue and banded. As Tourmaline it presents the