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    Variscite is a hydrated aluminium phosphate mineral (AlPO4·2H2O). It is a relatively rare phosphate mineral. It is sometimes confused with turquoise;...
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    later Neolithic and early Bronze Age. The term includes turquoise and variscite but not jade. "Callaïs" was described by Pliny the Elder as being paler...
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  • dihydrate is found as the minerals variscite and meta-variscite. Aluminium phosphate dihydrate (variscite and meta-variscite) has a structure that can be regarded...
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    yellow-green shades. Some of the green to green-yellow shades may actually be variscite or faustite, which are secondary phosphate minerals similar in appearance...
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  • Triphylite Triplite Tugtupite Turquoise Ulexite Ussingite Vanadinite Variscite Väyrynenite Vesuvianite (idocrase) Californite (var.) Villiaumite Vivianite...
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    Sodalite Spinel Sunstone Tanzanite Tiger's eye Topaz Tourmaline Turquoise Variscite Zircon Organic gemstones Abalone Amber Ammolite Copal Coral Black Precious...
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    Sodalite Spinel Sunstone Tanzanite Tiger's eye Topaz Tourmaline Turquoise Variscite Zircon Organic gemstones Abalone Amber Ammolite Copal Coral Black Precious...
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    Sodalite Spinel Sunstone Tanzanite Tiger's eye Topaz Tourmaline Turquoise Variscite Zircon Organic gemstones Abalone Amber Ammolite Copal Coral Black Precious...
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    of fellow mineralogists. It occurs in association with crandallite and variscite in fractures in aluminous metamorphic rock, in hydrothermal regions and...
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    polished stone axeheads, stone arm-rings, and jewellery made from callaïs (variscite and turqouise). Scientific analyses have shown that many of the axeheads...
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    Sodalite Spinel Sunstone Tanzanite Tiger's eye Topaz Tourmaline Turquoise Variscite Zircon Organic gemstones Abalone Amber Ammolite Copal Coral Black Precious...
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    angles. Stones which are opaque or semi-opaque such as opal, turquoise, variscite, etc. are commonly cut as cabochons. These gems are designed to show the...
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    Streng [de] (1830–1897). Lavender, pink or purple in hue, it is similar to variscite and is partially soluble, particularly in conditions where there is a...
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    PandaBoard. Retrieved 17 Feb 2012. "VAR-SOM-OM44 CPU: TI OMAP4460". Variscite. Retrieved 17 Feb 2012. Klug, Brian (27 Jun 2012). "Google Announces Nexus...
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  • Vanadinite Vanadiocarpholite Vanadium Vandenbrandeite Vantasselite Vanuralite Variscite Vaterite Vauquelinite Vauxite Veatchite Vermiculite Vesuvianite Villiaumite...
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    professor of geology at the University of Vienna, coined the term in 1880. (Variscite, a rare green mineral first discovered in the Vogtland district of Saxony...
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    occurrence in Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah County, Utah, US. It occurs with variscite in phosphate nodules and occurs uncommonly in pegmatites and phosphate...
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    C. are few in number: a few shards of pottery and a turquoise variscite bead. Variscite is a mineral of foreign origin that was highly prized at the time...
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    Sodalite Spinel Sunstone Tanzanite Tiger's eye Topaz Tourmaline Turquoise Variscite Zircon Organic gemstones Abalone Amber Ammolite Copal Coral Black Precious...
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    and near rivers, and others were built in the vicinity of mines where variscite and iron ore were extracted. Rock paintings have been discovered and artefacts...
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    Associated minerals include tanarakite, ardealite, hydroxylapatite, variscite and gypsum. Brushite is the original precipitating material in calcium...
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    05 Kolbeckite, 05 Metavariscite, 05 Phosphosiderite; 10 Strengite, 10 Variscite; 20 Ludlamite 08.CE With only medium-sized cations, RO4:H2O £1:2.5: 10...
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    still unidentified. Among them are the only known Neolithic mines of variscite, a green mineral used to make body ornaments. From the Iberian and Roman...
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  • 9.EE.50 [193] [194] [no] Vargite (IMA2020-051) 8.DD. [195] [no] [no] Variscite (IMA1967 s.p., 1837) 8.CD.10 [196] [197] [198] (IUPAC: aluminium phosphate...
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  • Vargite Vg Verneite Ver Vishnevite Vhn Vonsenite Von Vanackerite Vnk Variscite Var Verplanckite Vpk Vismirnovite Vis Vorlanite Vrl Vanadinite Vna Varlamoffite...
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    imported from the Italian Alps), as well jewellery made from callaïs (variscite and turquoise) imported from south-western Spain. Jade axes have similarly...
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    fluorapatite, wavellite, phosphosiderite, strengite, aldermanite, cacoxenite, variscite, turquoise, fluorite and quartz. Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved...
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    stone axes, flint arrowheads, knives, bone needles and necklaces made of variscite (which probably originates from the exploitation of the Can Tintoré mines...
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    mines, the oldest gallery of mines in Europe, which were used to mine variscite. Guia de la Xarxa de Museus Locals (in Catalan). Enciclopèdia Catalana...
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  • for rockhounds looking for an apple-green, chert-like phosphate mineral variscite, also known as utahlite and lucinite. Nearby is a large artwork called...
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