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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.
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 ...
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Modern lists of birthstones have little to do with either the breastplate or the Foundation Stones of Christianity. Tastes, customs, and confusing translations have distanced them from their historical origins, [3]: 310 with one author calling the 1912 Kansas list (see below) "nothing but a piece of unfounded salesmanship." [2]: 132
A candlestick chart (also called Japanese candlestick chart or K-line [7]) is a style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency. Stock price prediction based on K-line patterns is the essence of candlestick technical analysis.
Prasiolite (also known as green quartz, green amethyst or vermarine) is a green variety of quartz.. Since 1950, almost all natural prasiolite has come from a small Brazilian mine, [citation needed] but it has also been mined in the Lower Silesia region of Poland.
1859 was the year oil drilling began in the United States, in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and so I imagine it took a couple of years for prices to get down to realistic levels. Prices from the first couple of years of production are probably meaningless. Data from 1945–1985 is said to be the price for "Arabian Light posted at Ras Tanura". I don ...
HMT Peridot (FY 198), a British Second World War anti-submarine trawler that sank 15 March 1940 after striking a mine Peridot , a British First World War trawler scuttled by the Germans 10 July 1917 USS Peridot (PYc-18), a United States Navy coastal patrol yacht