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  2. Tourmaline - Wikipedia

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    Watermelon Tourmaline mineral on quartz matrix (crystal approximately 2 cm (0.79 in) wide at face) Almost every color of tourmaline can be found in Brazil, especially in Minas Gerais and Bahia. The new type of tourmaline, which soon became known as paraiba tourmaline, came in blue and green.

  3. List of minerals by optical properties - Wikipedia

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    Optical properties of common minerals Name Crystal system Indicatrix Optical sign Birefringence Color in plain polars Anorthite: Triclinic: Biaxial (-) 0.013

  4. List of minerals - Wikipedia

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    Amethyst crystals – a purple quartz Apophyllite crystals sitting right beside a cluster of peachy bowtie stilbite Aquamarine variety of beryl with tourmaline on orthoclase Arsenopyrite from Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Aurichalcite needles spraying out within a protected pocket lined by bladed calcite crystals Austinite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico Ametrine ...

  5. Quartz - Wikipedia

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    Quartz is, therefore, classified structurally as a framework silicate mineral and compositionally as an oxide mineral. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar. [10] Quartz exists in two forms, the normal α-quartz and the high-temperature β-quartz, both of which are chiral. The transformation ...

  6. Pegmatite - Wikipedia

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    Quartz crystals with masses measured in thousands of pounds [5] and micas over 10 meters (33 ft) across and 4 meters (13 ft) thick have been found. [8] Spodumene crystals over 12 meters (40 ft) long have been found in the Black Hills of South Dakota , and beryl crystals 8.2 meters (27 ft) long and 1.8 meters (6 ft) in diameter have been found ...

  7. Pleochroism - Wikipedia

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    Pleochroism of cordierite shown by rotating a polarizing filter on the lens of the camera Pleochroism of tourmaline shown by rotating a polarizing filter on the lens of the camera. Pleochroism is an optical phenomenon in which a substance has different colors when observed at different angles, especially with polarized light. [1]

  8. Greisen - Wikipedia

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    Greisen is a highly altered granitic rock or pegmatite, usually composed predominantly of quartz and micas (mostly muscovite). Greisen is formed by self-generated alteration of a granite and is a class of moderate- to high-temperature magmatic-hydrothermal alteration related to the late-stage release of volatiles dissolved in a magma during the ...

  9. Gemstones in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Quartz Milan Jug with cut festoon decoration. Crystal - Hebrew גָּבִישׁ‬‎ gāvīsh (Job, 28:18), Greek gabis; Latin eminentia (Job, xxviii, 18); krystallos (Revelations 4:6, 21:11, 22:1). Crystal is a transparent mineral resembling glass, a variety of quartz.

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