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  2. Category:Mineralogy museums - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... National Gem and Mineral Collection; ... Society of Mineral Museum Professionals; U.

  3. Golconda diamonds - Wikipedia

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    The Golconda diamondiferous region is located in the Southern Indian peninsular shield, [2] which was formed during the process of proterozoic and Insular India. [3] The region is spread over 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi), within the sediments of the Krishna-Pennar river basin and Deccan Traps, [2] and contains 120 out of the 150 kimberlite pipes in India. [4]

  4. Hope Diamond - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] It is classified as a type IIb diamond. The Hope Diamond is currently housed in the National Gem and Mineral collection at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. [12] It has changed hands numerous times on its way from Hyderabad, India, to France, Great Britain, and the United States, where it is on public display ...

  5. National Museum of Natural History - Wikipedia

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    The Star of Asia, a large, 330-carat cabochon-cut star sapphire in the U.S. National Gem and Mineral Collection The Hope Diamond. The National Gem and Mineral Collection is one of the most significant collections of its kind in the world. There are currently over 15,000 individual gems in the collection, as well as 350,000 minerals and 300,000 ...

  6. Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act

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    The Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act (1957) is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to regulate the mining sector in India. It was amended in 2015 and 2016. This act forms the basic framework of mining regulation in India. [1] This act is applicable to all minerals except minor minerals and atomic minerals.

  7. National Digital Repository for Museums of India - Wikipedia

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    The National Portal and Digital Repository for Museums of India has dissolved the physical walls and removed the geographical distances between 10 national museums by merging them into a single Virtual Museum which can be accessed online through single window. Students and teachers can access the museums directly from home or classrooms.

  8. Gargoti Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Gargoti Museum is a museum in the town Sinnar near Nashik in Indian state of Maharashtra that houses a collection of natural mineral and gem specimens collected by K. C. Pandey over 40 years. The word "goti" refers to a Marathi word meaning stone or pebble. [1] This is India's first and only gem, mineral, and fossil museum.

  9. Mineral collecting - Wikipedia

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    National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Gem and Mineral Collection, Washington, D.C. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County [9] [10] Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Vienna, Austria), Mineralogy and Petrography Exhibition [11] Terra Mineralia, Mineral Exhibition of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, (3500 specimen on display) [12]