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Staurolite |
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Opaque, cross-shaped staurolite "twins"are used in jewellery more often than the transparent scones, which are rare and cut only for collectors. "Cross-stones", as twins are called, have been used as amulets and in religious jewellery. (Crystals are reddish brown) to black, with distinct pleochroism.
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Staurolite occurs in Switzerland, Germany, the former USSR, the USA, Brazil, France, and Scotland.
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Lialac-pink
kunzite is named after the gemologist G.F. Kunz, who first
described it in 1902; hiddenites is named after W.E. Hidden,
who discovered it in North (Carolina in 1879).
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