The intense violet-purple phosphosiederite comes from the Atacama Desert in Peru. Still a rather unknown gemstone, the mineral is inspiring more and more people with its visual and energetic effect.
Phosphosiderite was discovered in 1858 by the French mineralogist Alfred Lewis Oliver Legrand Des Cloizeaux (1817 - 1897) and was initially ...
The intense violet-purple phosphosiederite comes from the Atacama Desert in Peru. Still a rather unknown gemstone, the mineral is inspiring more and more people with its visual and energetic effect.
Phosphosiderite was discovered in 1858 by the French mineralogist Alfred Lewis Oliver Legrand Des Cloizeaux (1817 - 1897) and was initially referred to as whoreaulite type I. Today it is known as phosphosiderite. Today it is known as phosphosiderite type II. After detailed investigations, Willy Bruhns and Karl Heinrich Emil Georg Busz named the newly discovered gemstone in 1890 after its composition of phosphate and iron (from the Greek word "sideros").
Historical names for phosphosiderite are clinobarrandite, clinostrengite and metastrengite; vateite is a manganese-rich variety.
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