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  2. Dumortierite - Wikipedia

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    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] It typically occurs in high temperature aluminium rich regional metamorphic ...

  3. Egyptian blue - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian blue, also known as calcium copper silicate (CaCuSi 4 O 10 or CaOCuO (SiO 2) 4 (calcium copper tetrasilicate)) or cuprorivaite, [1] is a pigment that was used in ancient Egypt for thousands of years. It is considered to be the first synthetic pigment. [2] It was known to the Romans by the name caeruleum.

  4. Quartz - Wikipedia

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    Quartz. Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO 4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO 2. Quartz is, therefore, classified structurally as a framework silicate mineral ...

  5. Llanite - Wikipedia

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    Llanite is a porphyritic rhyolite with distinctive phenocrysts of blue quartz (a rare quartz color) and perthitic feldspar (light grayish-orangeish). The brown, fine-grained groundmass consists of very small quartz, feldspar, and biotite mica crystals. Llanite comes from a hypabyssal porphyritic rhyolite dike that intrudes Precambrian ...

  6. 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.

  7. Tiger's eye - Wikipedia

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    Tiger's eye (also called tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre.As members of the quartz group, tiger's eye and the related blue-coloured mineral hawk's eye gain their silky, lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have mostly turned into limonite.

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