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  2. Lignum nephriticum - Wikipedia

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    Bauhin observed that when water was poured into the cup with the wood shavings, the water shortly turned into "a wonderful blue and yellow color, and when held up against the light beautifully resembled the varying color of the opal, giving forth reflections, as in that gem, of fiery yellow, bright red, glowing purple, and sea green most ...

  3. Chrysoberyl - Wikipedia

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    The color change from red to green is due to strong absorption of light in a narrow yellow portion of the spectrum, while allowing large bands of more blue-green and red wavelengths to be transmitted. Which of these prevails to give the perceived hue depends on the spectral balance of the illumination.

  4. Mexican amber - Wikipedia

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    Mexican amber is mainly recovered from fossil bearing rocks in the Simojovel region of Chiapas, Mexico. It is one of the main minerals recovered in the state of Chiapas, much of which is from 15 to 23 million years old, with quality comparable to that found in the Dominican Republic. Chiapan amber has a number of unique qualities, including ...

  5. Luminous gemstones - Wikipedia

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    The OED defines pyrope (from Greek Πυρωπός, lit. "fire-eyed")" as: "In early use applied vaguely to a red or fiery gem, as ruby or carbuncle; (mineralogy) the Bohemian garnet or fire-garnet"; and carbuncle or carbuncle-stone (from Latin "carbunculus", "small glowing ember") as: "A name variously applied to precious stones of a red or ...

  6. Rosolite - Light pink variety of grossular; Imperial Garnet - Light pink, transparent gem variety of grossular; Raspberry Garnet - Raspberry-red variety of grossular; Misnomers redirect to Grossularite - South African Jade, Garnet Jade, African jade, Transvaal jade) Hydrogrossular - dab - Hydrogrossular garnet; Pyralspite series

  7. Blue amber - Wikipedia

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    Blue amber is a rare variety of amber resin that exhibits a blue coloration. Blue amber has been most commonly found in the Dominican Republic —especially in the amber mines around the city of Santiago and, less commonly, in the eastern half of the country.

  8. Fire agate - Wikipedia

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    Fire agate, a variety of chalcedony, is a semi-precious natural gemstone discovered so far only in certain areas of central and northern Mexico and the southwestern United States (New Mexico, Arizona and California). [1] Approximately 24-36 million years ago these areas were subjected to massive volcanic activity during the Tertiary Period.

  9. Tanzanite - Wikipedia

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    As a result of this phenomenon, a multitude of colors have been observed in various specimens: shades of purple, violet, indigo, blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange, red and brown. After heating, tanzanite becomes dichroic. The dichroic colours range from violet through bluish-violet to indigo and violetish-blue to blue. [29]