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cacoxenite

Identified in 1825 in Bohemia in iron deposits, its name comes from the Greek “kakos”, for bad, and “xenos”, for guest or stranger to indicate that its presence in the iron ore was not appreciated: this phosphate makes the metal iron ore work, harder. The

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xenotime

Identified by Berzelius its name is related to the Greek word “xenos”, meaning stranger, because the crystals were not discovered until later and it was long called Cenotime. It forms a series with the chernovite and is a rare earth phosphate, more often Yttrium but

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witherite round cut

witherite

Its name honors the British physician and mineralogist W. Withering (1741-1799). Witherite is toxic in powder.

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vlasovite fancy cut

vlasovite

Discovered in the Kola peninsula in Russia, it honors the name of the Russian mineralogist Kuzma Alekseevich Vlasov (1905-1964).

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topaz

All the yellow stones were called topazes before we learned the difference from the others. This name probably comes from the island of Zebirget, former Topazos , on the Red Sea, where the peridot was found in the Middle Ages, unless it comes from the

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titanite

Identified in 1795, its name expresses its high content of titanium. It has long been known as sphene, which came from the Greek “sphenos” for corner, which described very well the shape of its wedge-shaped crystals. Brookite, of the same composition, crystallizes in another crystal

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