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From the family of plagioclase, its name comes from the Greek “oligo”, a little bit, and “klassos” break, because it is a feldspar whose cleavage is more difficult than for others. It is part of the albite-anorthite series. It was identified by Breithaupt in 1826.
Its name comes, according to Pliny, from Obsidius who brought it from Ethiopia, which would have led the Romans to call it “obsidius lapis”. From the seventeenth century we find the names of hyalopsite, mountain mahogany, Iceland black agate, mirror of the Incas, gallinaceous stone
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
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 “.
