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2. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.

3. Peridot - Wikipedia

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   Peridot (/ ˈ p ɛ r ɪ ˌ d ɒ t,-ˌ d oʊ / PERR-ih-dot, -⁠⁠doh), sometimes called chrysolite, is a yellow-green transparent variety of olivine. Peridot is one of the few gemstones that occur in only one color. Peridot can be found in mafic and ultramafic rocks occurring in lava and peridotite xenoliths of the mantle.

4. Peridotite - Wikipedia

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   Peridotite is named for the gemstone peridot, a glassy green gem originally mined on St. John's Island in the Red Sea [65] and now mined on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. [ 66 ] Peridotite that has been hydrated at low temperatures is the protolith for serpentinite , which may include chrysotile asbestos (a form of ...

5. Diamond - Wikipedia

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   Diamonds can be sold already set in jewelry, or sold unset ("loose"). According to the Rio Tinto, in 2002 the diamonds produced and released to the market were valued at US$9 billion as rough diamonds, US$14 billion after being cut and polished, US$28 billion in wholesale diamond jewelry, and US$57 billion in retail sales. [108]