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SAUSSURITE

Saussurite is a waxy-looking, white or pale green substance which results from the alteration of feldspar in rocks such as gabbro. It is a very fine admixture of garnet, zoisite, albite and other minerals.
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THULITE

Thulite is a variety of zoisite used as an ornamental stone. It is a basic calcium and aluminium silicate, rose-red or pink in colour, and is found in Telemarken in Norway.
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ZOISITE

Zoisite, named after its discoverer its discoverer, Von Zois, an Austrian mineralogist, is a greyish or whitish mineral allied to epidote, occurring in orthorhombic, prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses and formed in high temperature metamorphic rocks. It is a silicate of alumina and lime has the formulae Ca2Al3 (Si3O12)(OH) and a relative hardness of 7.
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