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2. Spatika Lingam - Wikipedia

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   High quality quartz crystals are single-crystal silica with optical or electronic properties that make them suitable for hardstone carvings. The Hindu temples in South India use this semi-precious mineral for making Shiva Lingams. Sphatikam beads are made from translucent rose quartz are cut and polished as beads.

3. Dumortierite - Wikipedia

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   Crystals show pleochroism from red to blue to violet. Dumortierite quartz is blue colored quartz containing abundant dumortierite inclusions. Dumortierite was first described in 1881 for an occurrence in Chaponost , in the Rhône - Alps of France and named for the French paleontologist Eugène Dumortier (1803–1873). [ 5 ]

4. Asterism (gemology) - Wikipedia

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   Asterism is generated by reflections of light from twin-lamellae or from extremely fine needle-shaped acicular inclusions within the stone's crystal structure. [1] A common cause is oriented sub-microscopic crystals of rutile within the gem mineral. It occurs in rubies, sapphires, garnet, diopside, and spinel when a cabochon is cut from a ...

5. Gemstone - Wikipedia

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   Group of precious and semiprecious stones—both uncut and faceted—including (clockwise from top left) diamond, uncut synthetic sapphire, ruby, uncut emerald, and amethyst crystal cluster. A gemstone (also called a fine gem , jewel , precious stone , semiprecious stone , or simply gem ) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or ...

6. List of U.S. state minerals, rocks, stones and gemstones

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   Leaders of states in the U.S. which have significant mineral deposits often create a state mineral, rock, stone or gemstone to promote interest in their natural resources, history, tourism, etc.

7. Quartz - Wikipedia

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   Quartz crystal demonstrating transparency. Pure quartz, traditionally called rock crystal or clear quartz, is colorless and transparent or translucent and has often been used for hardstone carvings, such as the Lothair Crystal. Common colored varieties include citrine, rose quartz, amethyst, smoky quartz, milky quartz, and others. [37]

8. Rose Quartz (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   Rose quartz is a type of quartz which exhibits a pale pink to rose red hue. Rose Quartz may also refer to: Rose quartz (color), a gray shade of magenta; Rose Quartz (Fabergé egg) Rose Quartz (My Little Pony), one of the Crystal Ponies from the My Little Pony franchise "Rose Quartz", a song by Toro y Moi from their album Anything in Return ...

9. Lepidolite - Wikipedia

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   Lepidolite is a lilac-gray or rose-colored member of the mica group of minerals with chemical formula K(Li,Al) 3 (Al,Si,Rb) 4 O 10 (F,OH) 2. [2] [3] It is the most abundant lithium-bearing mineral [4] and is a secondary source of this metal.