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  2. Erbil Stones and Gems Museum - Wikipedia

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    The museum was founded (and is owned) by Sarbast Majeed. [1] Majeed, a graduate of Mosul College of Sciences, Department of Geology in 1985, had gathered his 40-year collection of gemstones from many parts of the world and displayed it originally in a house in the small city of Shaqlawa (northeast of Hawler) in 2014.

  3. Amethyst - Wikipedia

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    Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz.The name comes from the Koine Greek αμέθυστος amethystos from α - a-, "not" and μεθύσκω (Ancient Greek) methysko / μεθώ metho (Modern Greek), "intoxicate", a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness. [1]

  4. Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine - Wikipedia

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    The Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility, owned by MP Materials, is an open-pit mine of rare-earth elements on the south flank of the Clark Mountain Range in California, 53 miles (85 km) southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

  5. Ever gone rockhounding near the Tri-Cities area? You can find ...

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    Amethysts. Garnets. Jaspers. Opals. Gold (Rockhounding, not panning) Invertebrate fossils, like the state gemstone petrified wood . Oligocene petrified wood. Without a permit, you CANNOT rockhound:

  6. Gemstone Meanings: Power and Significance of the 25 Most ...

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    Citrine “A powerful gemstone crystal in a range of deep yellows, oranges, and yellow-cream-white, the citrine gemstone is said to bring abundance and wealth into one’s life,” Salzer says.

  7. The Best Warren Buffett Stocks to Buy With $1,000 Right Now - AOL

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    Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) owns a stock portfolio worth roughly $300 billion with about four dozen individual stocks in it. Legendary stock-picker Warren Buffett himself hand ...

  8. Gems of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Marco Polo wrote that the island had the best sapphires, topazes, amethysts, and other gems in the world. [1] Ptolemy, the 2nd century astronomer recorded that beryl and sapphire were the mainstay of Sri Lanka’s gem industry. Records from sailors that visited the island state that they brought back “jewels of Serendib”.

  9. Bodie Mine - Wikipedia

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    The Wrigleys, famous for their gum and Chicago baseball team, built the steam-powered mill and established what became The Bodie Mining Company. A stock certificate signed in 1903 by then president L.S. Kurtz indicates the mine's net worth to be US $1,500,000.