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Setubal river, Malacacheta, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil
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| Name: | In honor of Alexander II (1818-81), Czar of Russia, 1855-81. | ||
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| A variety of Chrysoberyl Green gem variety of chrysoberyl that exibits a color change in natural and artificial light from green to amethystine (Alexandrite effect). Originally reported from Emerald mines (Izumrudnye Kopi; Malyshevskoye deposit), Malyshevo, Ekaterinburg (Yekaterinburg; Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Urals Region, Russia. | |||
Classification of Alexandrite | ||||||
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| Health Warning: | No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care. | |||||
References for Alexandrite | ||||||
| Reference List: | Nordenskiöd (1842), Russ. Ges. Min. Schr. Wild and Klemm (1926), Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paleontologie, Stuttgart: 31. Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged: 718. Schmetzer K. Bank H. Gübelin E. (1980): The alexandrite effect in minerals: chrysoberyl, garnet, corundum, fluorite. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie Abhandlungen, 138, 147-164. http://www.alexandrite.net/ | |||||
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