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cacoxenite cabochon altdd

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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oval cut xenotime

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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pink vayrynenite from Pakistan square cut

vayrynenite

Its name honors the Finnish mineralogist Väyrynen who identified it in Finland but the pink samples and gems come from the Paproke mine in Afghanistan.

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aenigmatite crystal from Greenland

aenigmatite

Discovered in 1865 its name comes from Greek showing that its chemical formula was a real “mystery” to solve.

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ilvaite pear cut

ilvaite

Its name comes from the ancient name of Elba in Italy (Ilva), where it was identified in 1811.

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sliced polished nephrite from China

nephrite

This is a thick microcrystalline rock the of amphibole family, we can consider nephrite as a microcrystalline variety of ferrous actinolite-tremolite series. The majority of nephrites are composed mainly of actinolite. The white variety, known as” mutton fat “, is composed almost exclusively of tremolite,

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