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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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marquetry in white nacre

mother-of-pearl

Mother-of-pearl or Nacre is the substance that constitutes the inner part of the shell of certain mollusks, its name comes from the Latin “ nacrum “, which was used to describe white matter with iridescent reflections. It consists of a mineral part of calcium carbonate

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native silver crystals from Mexico

silver

Its name comes from the Latin argentum, it is found in hydrothermal veins. Its softness, its malleability, its low melting point and its brightness made it a popular metal for jewelry since ancient times. But it is as a currency that it has gained fame

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heart cut ulexie

ulexite

Named in honor of the German chemist George Ulex (1811-1883). We notice a rare property: if the ends of a thick plate are well polished perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of its crystal fibers, they behave like optical fibers. A Printed text placed below appears

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green tremolite of Tanzania oval cut

tremolite

She was named in 1789 by the mineralogist J.G.A. Höpfner in relation to its supposed place of discovery: the Val Tremola in the St. Gotthard massif in Switzerland, but the sample was from another valley … Campolungo. Chemically very close to actinolite (tremolite does not

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yellow - green sillimanite from Tanzania

sillimanite

Discovered in 1824, it honors the name of the American geologist Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864). It is also known for its blue or violet variety called fibrolite. It has been known since prehistoric times and it was used to manufacture cutting tools. There is also a

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emerald cut shortite

shortite

Discovered in 1939, it honors the name of American mineralogist Maxwell Naylor Short (1889-1952).

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