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muscovite crystals from Afghanistan

muscovite

ck_admin March 24, 2021

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

ck_admin March 24, 2021

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 cushion cut tectite from Lybia

moldavite

ck_admin March 24, 2021

This is actually one kind of tektite: these are fragments of terrestrial rocks melted by the impact of a large meteorite, their name coming from the Greek “têktos”, to melt, which were first found on the Vltava River a river of the Czech Republic, since

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yellow milarite crystals from Jaquaraçu in Minas Gerais in Brazil

milarite

ck_admin March 24, 2021

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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microlite triangle cut

microlite

ck_admin March 24, 2021

Its name comes from the Greek “micro” to indicate that when discovered in 1835 it was only present in small crystals.

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baguette cut mesolite

mesolite

ck_admin March 24, 2021

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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