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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 …

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cabochon of carnelian mounted as breastpin

chalcedony

Chalcedony: This is a term including microcristallines and cryptocrystalline varieties of quartz, which come from the Greek name of the famous city of Carthage “Karkêdon”. Extracted in Egypt and Syria, it has been used since ancient times for intaglios and cameos, an active trade with

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gem brookite crystal from Pakistan

brookite

Discovered in 1825 by Levy, its name honors the English mineralogist Henry James Brooke (1771-1857). It is a crystalline form of titanium oxide, such as rutile and anatase.

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petrified wood from France

petrified wood

This is a fossilized wood dating back 200 million years, all parts of a trunk or branches have been silicified, that is to say that the organic components have been gradually replaced by silica in the form of jasper, chalcedony, or more rarely opal, there

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square cut bixbyite

bixbyite

Discovered in 1897 in Thomas Range in Utah, United States, its name honors the prospector and mineralogist Maynard Bixby (1853-1935) who was a minerals specialist from Utah.

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polished astrophyllite from Russia

astrophyllite

Discovered in 1854, its name comes from the Greek “astron” – star- and “phyllon” – leaf- illustrating the shape of its starry groups of acicular crystals. In gemology, it is known as inclusions in quartz crystals and can be confused with rutile.

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trillion cut amazonite from Vietnam

amazonite

This is a perthite, variety of feldspar, so called because discovered in the Amazon, but not near the Amazon River. It is part of the family of microclines. The name microcline comes from the Greek “small slope” has been given by Breithaupt in 1830 in

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