Je vous emmène à travers mes vidéos découvrir mon expérience acquise depuis plus de 30 ans a silloner le globe entier à la recherche de pierres précieuses, de rencontre mémorables mais aussi de difficulté parfois …
Not to be confused with lazurite, the main constituent of lapis lazuli. Lazulite is also called Klaprothite, in honor of the German mineralogist Klaproth (1743-1817) who discovered titanium and uranium, and described this stone. The name fell into disuse but it would avoid confusion between
This plagioclase was discovered in 1770 in the Labrador region in Canada, which gave it its name. It is part of the albite-anorthite series. Its characteristic is a set of iridescent colors that can be observed by changing its position relatively to the light, this
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
Its name honors Siegmund August Wolfgang von Herder (1776-1838) who identified it. It is found associated with herderite, besides many specimens called herderite are actually of hydroxylherderite.
Very common mineral, its name comes from the German “horn” horn “blenden” dazzle. There are many varieties depending on the content of iron, magnesium, calcium etc …
Its name comes from the Greek “hetero”, other, because on the same deposit it was the second mineral containing manganese to be discovered. It forms a group with purpurite, the iron pole of the phosphate is the heterosite and purpurite the manganiferous pole.
