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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. Naturally occurring prasiolite has also been found in the Thunder Bay area of Canada.
Dilli Abhi Door Hai" (Urdu: ہنوز دلی دور است , Hindi: दिल्ली अभी दूर है) is a Hindi-Urdu phrase from the Persian "Hanuz Dilli Door Ast" which translates to "Delhi is still far" meaning there is still work to be done. It was first used by Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order.
Zultanite rough crystal and gemstones Zultanite is a gem variety of the mineral diaspore , mined in the İlbir Mountains of southwest Turkey at an elevation of over 4,000 feet. [1] Turkey is the only place where the mineral can be found.
Elbaite, a sodium, lithium, aluminium boro - silicate, with the chemical composition Na (Li 1.5 Al 1.5 )Al 6 Si 6 O 18 (BO 3) 3 (OH) 4, [4] is a mineral species belonging to the six-member ring cyclosilicate tourmaline group. Elbaite forms three series, with dravite, with fluor-liddicoatite, and with schorl. Due to these series, specimens with ...
Single-player. Portal is a 2007 puzzle - platform game developed and published by Valve. It was released in a bundle, The Orange Box, for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and has been since ported to other systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, Android (via Nvidia Shield ), and Nintendo Switch . Portal consists primarily of a series of puzzles ...
Gemstones of the World revised 5th edition, 2013 by Walter Schumann ISBN 978-1454909538 Smithsonian Handbook: Gemstones by Cally Hall, 2nd ed. 2002 ISBN 978-0789489852 v
Aqeeq. Aqeeq, akik or aqiq ( Arabic: العقيق) means quartz in Arabic, and agate in Turkish, however in the context of rings usually refers to a ring set with a chalcedony stone. Well-known types of chalcedony are carnelian, agate, and onyx. It is considered a semi-precious gem stone, and rings set with golden-orange variety of carnelian or ...
Abraxas. Abraxas ( Biblical Greek: ἀβραξάς, romanized: abraxas, variant form ἀβράναξ romanized: abranax) is a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the "Great Archon " ( megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( ouranoi ).