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Did you know that although charoite was discovered in the 1940s, it was not regarded as a natural gemstone, and in fact, people believed it to be artificial due to the vivid hues it possessed. Later, this stone was recognized by the IMA (International Mineralogical Association) in
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Did you know that the black needles in black rutile were formed over millions of years when the rutile crystals got trapped during the crystallization of quartz in high temperature conditions? Mineralogists claim that some specimens date back over 400 million years, and thus, when you wear any
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Did you know that Moss Agate is not actually an agate; rather, it’s a type of chalcedony or microcrystalline quartz? You can tell that this stone
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Did you know that before polishing, the fossilized coral gemstones look like any ordinary limestone specimen, yet, after polishing, they show a beautiful honeycomb
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As a gemstone, chrysoprase has a very interesting history – the earliest use of this stone by human civilization dates back to approximately 7,000 years ago, and some chrysoprase artifacts were also found in the Indus
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Did you know that sponge coral was known to humanity even in the Neolithic times? The use of this organic gemstone dates back to approximately 8,000 years ago when sponge coral amulets were found in the Neolithic burials of Switzerland. This stone has been used by humans
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Did you know that the most ancient rose quartz artifacts date back to around 7000 BCE, which were found in Mesopotamia or modern-day Iraq? Also, it is said that Greeks associated rose quartz with Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, whereas Romans associated
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Historically, one of the agates that was of great importance to various civilizations was the plume agate. On the one hand, the Romans believed that using plume agate powder mixed in water could cure snake venom, while on the other, the people of the Middle East believed
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Did you know that the Inuit people of North America had a legend surrounding labradorite that the Northern Lights are trapped inside it? They believed that if a warrior who was favored by the gods struck the stone with his spear, then these lights would be released into the sky. Also, in Norse
