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Sec. IV, Ch. 27: Semi-Precious Stones, Peridot or Chrysolite

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Peridot or Chrysolite.
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is, however, sufficient to shew that scarcely any two minerals differ more widely in their constitution—the one being an aluminate of glucina, the other a silicate of mag­nesia The Chrysolite of mineralogy is in fact, practically the same stone as the Peridot.
Mineralogists include the Chrysolite and the Peridot under the one species Olivine. The colors of Olivine vary from light straw yellow to yellowish green, when the stone receives the name of Chrysolite ; and thence to a peculiar soft hue, of a delicate deep yellowish green, when it is called Peridot. It is found in Egypt, Brazil, Mexico, Arizona, South Africa, and other countries, generally as small pebbles, and it occurs in fragments in most of the gold drifts of New South Wales. Of late a large quantity of rough Peridot has come into the market from two new mines.
PERIDOT OR CHRYSOLITE.
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