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  2. Almandine - Wikipedia

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    Almandine (/ ˈ æ l m ən d ɪ n /), also known as almandite, is a species of mineral belonging to the garnet group. The name is a corruption of alabandicus, which is the name applied by Pliny the Elder to a stone found or worked at Alabanda, a town in Caria in Asia Minor.

  3. Peridot - Wikipedia

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    Peridot can be found in mafic and ultramafic rocks occurring in lava and peridotite xenoliths of the mantle. The gem occurs in silica-deficient rocks such as volcanic basalt and pallasitic meteorites. Along with diamonds, peridot is one of only two gems observed to be formed not in Earth's crust, but in the molten rock of the upper mantle. [1]

  4. Aquamarine (gem) - Wikipedia

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    Aquamarine can mostly be found in granite pegmatites. [6] It can also be found in veins of metamorphic rocks that became mineralized by hydrothermal activity. [5] Dom Pedro aquamarine in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. The largest known example is the Dom Pedro aquamarine found in Pedra Azul, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in ...

  5. Kyanite - Wikipedia

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    Kyanite is a typically blue aluminosilicate mineral, found in aluminium-rich metamorphic pegmatites and sedimentary rock. It is the high pressure polymorph of andalusite and sillimanite, and the presence of kyanite in metamorphic rocks generally indicates metamorphism deep in the Earth's crust. Kyanite is also known as disthene or cyanite. [5]

  6. Tourmaline - Wikipedia

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    Schorl and lithium-rich tourmalines are usually found in granite and granite pegmatite. Magnesium-rich tourmalines, dravites, are generally restricted to schists and marble. Tourmaline is a durable mineral and can be found in minor amounts as grains in sandstone and conglomerate, and is part of the ZTR index for highly weathered sediments. [24]

  7. Stone sealer - Wikipedia

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    Penetrating sealers often require the use of special cleaners which both clean and top up the repellent ingredient left on the stone surface. These sealers are often breathable to a certain degree, but do not penetrate deeply enough (generally less than 1mm) to be effective against salt attack, such as efflorescence and spalling.

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