Ch. 19: Kunzite

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CHAPTER XIX
KUNZITE
KUNZITE is a comparatively new transpar-ent gem discovered in America about 1903; it is a lilac-coloured spodumene, which, upon the suggestion of the mineralogist Charles Basker-ville, was named kunzite, in honour of Dr. George Frederic Kunz, because of his services to the scientific world in the gem branch of mineralogy. The honour accorded Dr. Kunz by mineralogists in accepting the name is enhanced because of the beauty of this new gem mineral. The first crystals of this unaltered lilac-coloured spodu­mene were discovered a mile and a half north­east from Pala, San Diego County, California. The vicinity of this discovery was already of great interest to students of gem minerals be­cause but fifty feet away from the spot is a famous deposit of tourmaline from which spe­cimen crystals remarkable for the unusually large size and great beauty have been taken,
while half a mile away is a celebrated rubellite
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