shomiokite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
Discovered in the Kola Peninsula, near the river Shomiok that gave it its name.
silky
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serpentine
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
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
moonstone
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
The moonstone is composed of alkaline feldspar, mainly potassium in other words orthoclase, in its variety “adularia”. This is actually a microperthite resulting from a microscopic phase separation of platelets from a sodium feldspar, the albite, in the orthoclase during the cooling of the mixture
pectolite
ck_admin
March 24, 2021
The blue and white larimar is the only variety of this stone sought. Known since the early twentieth century, the blue variety of volcanic origin was rediscovered in 1974 in the Dominican Republic. Its name was assigned by its discoverer Miguel Mendez: Lari (the beginning
