Crystalline Moonstone Specimen #10 location_ethiopia However it was later renamed

However it was later renamed from the Greek word for “scaley” - lepidos

It has been used since the Stone Age as a talisman for good fortune

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though it can also be colourless

and is one of the lesser known members of the Beryl family

Crystalline Moonstone Specimen #10 location_ethiopia However it was later renamedThese rare crystalline Moonstone specimens which display some blue shimmer are from Pili Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico. You will receive the exact Moonstone specimen pictured. Moonstone is very rarely found growing in actual crystals, it is almost always found in large chunks masses. Getting technical, these are a variety of Feldspar called Anorthoclase, which belongs to the Albite group of Feldspars. Growing with it is Aegerine, and the hoppered black