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yellow anglesite from Morocco emerald cut

anglesite

Its name comes from a locality in Wales (Great Britain): the island of Anglesey. Described in 1832 by French mineralogist François Sulpice Beudant as anglésine and then subsequently anglesite. There are varieties rich in silver or copper.

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demantoide variety of andradite garnet from Russia, oval cut

andradite

Andradite: this variety of garnet has been described and identified by Dana, its name is a tribute to a Brazilian mineralogist Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (1763-1838). Mélanite : black titanoan variety, its name comes from the Greek “black”. Topazolite : yellow variety of

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red andesine from China

andesine

A feldspar from the family of plagioclases, discovered in 1841 in Marmato in Colombia, is named after its abundant presence in the Andes in South America. A blood red variety, whose color is due to copper, was discovered in 2002 Congo near the Goma region.

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emerald cut analcime

analcime

Identified in 1797 by René Just Haüy, its name comes from the Greek “analkimos” which means “weak -that has no force”. It is one example of a mineral that crystallizes in several crystal systems according to the order taken by its atoms …. it can

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pearly ammonite from Madagascar

ammolite

Dating back 70 million years, the fossilized remains of ammonites have been known for a long time by Native Americans who used them as an amulet for hunting and for healing. It is recognized as a gem since 1981 and its atypical iridescent appearance promotes

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rough amber from The Baltic sea in Poland

amber

It is a product of plant origin, the fossilized resin of some conifers (pine, redwood, cypress, cedar …) and some angiosperms (legumes, Umbelliferae, Liliaceae). The amber from the Dominican Republic was produced by a kind of tropical tree, now extinct, ancestor of the carob tree,

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