August 14th, 2008 at 3:32pm |
In her magic garden of crystal blossoms deep in the earth, the Earth Goddess cherished a treasure of choicest excellence, to which she gave an abundance of melting colors, as well as high refraction (1.72) and vivid fire (0.02 1), notable hardness (8) and complete absence of cleavage. From the sum of this generous endowment […]
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August 12th, 2008 at 8:21pm |
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August 11th, 2008 at 1:31am |
Nature has conferred on zircon several quite outstanding optical properties which furnish brilliant-cut specimens with a particularly striking appearance. High adamantine luster and very vivid fire elevate zircon into the immediate proximity of diamond. Its specific gravity is unequalled by any other transparent gemstone. Its high refractive index of 1.95 and powerful color-dispersive ability of […]
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August 11th, 2008 at 1:22am |
Agate—diversely beautiful, multicolored, and variously formed as it is, its endless abundance of abstract designs can only be hinted at by the descriptions “spotted, cloudy, marbled, banded, or dappled.” To the ancient Greeks and Romans it was already known in the form of colored pebbles collected from the Achates River in Sicily.
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August 8th, 2008 at 10:43pm |
Pure chance is often the best ally for discovering the secrets of Mother Earth. She surely still holds many surprises in store. Though relevant preliminary studies did effect positive results in this case, it was nevertheless a happy accident for the Finnish mineralogist Laitakari when, during the Russian-Finnish winter campaign of 1939/40 while inspecting fortification […]
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August 8th, 2008 at 10:41pm |
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August 5th, 2008 at 10:23pm |
Lazulite, as the exquisite royal blue lapis is also called, differs from all other ornamental stones in that it is not a mineral but a rock which—evolving through pneumatolytic alteration from a contact-metamorphosed limestone—is made up of several minerals in varying amounts. As unique as this chemical composition is its unequalled night-dark blue, which Pliny […]
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August 5th, 2008 at 10:18pm |
The interest of its gnarled banding, which unlike most other ornamental stones is not multicolored but patterned throughout in contrasting shades of light to dark green, has earned malachite many admirers. In ancient times it was likened to the innumerable green shades of mallow leaves.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 9:17pm |
The display by malachite in its captivating symphony of greens is repeated by rhodochrosite (Greek rhodon = rose; chros = flesh color) on an equally grand scale in rose-red alternations. The latter is no less prolific in original designs of convoluted banding; with unflagging inventiveness it imprints its patterns in light and dark pink tones. […]
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August 3rd, 2008 at 9:11pm |
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