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The Mineral and Lapidary Museum of Henderson County is a non-profit, volunteer-run museum in Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States, founded in...

and history museums. A lapidary museum could either be a lapidarium or – less often – a gem museum (e.g. the Mineral and Lapidary Museum, North Carolina)...

The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum (MMGM) is a geology museum located in Bethel, Maine. It displays a collection of rocks, minerals, and meteorites. The...

gneiss. A long wall of this augen gneiss can be felt at the Mineral and Lapidary Museum of Western North Carolina.[citation needed] Foliation (geology)...

The Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art is a museum dedicated to the lapidary arts with displays of gemstones, jewelry and bejeweled objects, and exhibits on...

Fossil collecting Lapidary Lapidary club List of minerals Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, the world's largest Mineralientage, the Munich Mineral Show, Europe's...

structurally as a framework silicate mineral and compositionally as an oxide mineral. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust...

Lapidary Museum of Henderson County, located at 400 North Main Street in downtown Hendersonville, has giant geodes, a Tyrannosaurus skull, minerals,...

County Lundy–Fetterman Museum & Exhibit Hall, Buies Creek McKinney Geology Teaching Museum, Boone Mineral and Lapidary Museum, Hendersonville Mount Mitchell...

The Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, was a museum focused on minerals and mining. Last operated by the Arizona Historical Society...

A lapidary is a text in verse or prose, often a whole book, that describes the physical properties and virtues of precious and semi-precious stones, that...

into lapidary projects, and also the cutting, polishing, and mounting of gemstones and minerals. The equipment needed to do this includes rock saws and polishers...

The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals is a non-profit museum in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Located just north of the Sunset Highway on...

make it a colorful mineral and the stone has ornamental and lapidary uses. Industrially, fluorite is used as a flux for smelting, and in the production...

silicate mineral names: nephrite (a silicate of calcium and magnesium in the amphibole group of minerals), or jadeite (a silicate of sodium and aluminum...

source of modern lapidary nephrite. Nephrite jade was used mostly in pre-1800 China as well as in New Zealand, the Pacific Coast and Atlantic Coasts of...

Retrieved 6 December 2014. "Museum of Colerain". NC ECHO. Retrieved 4 December 2014. "Museum Of North Carolina Minerals - MP 331". National Park Service:...

Retrieved 28 June 2019. A Lapidary or History of Gemstones, University of Cambridge, 1652. Farrington, Oliver (1903) Gems and Gem Minerals. Chicago. p. 119. Pettigrew...

numerous hobby and professional journals, including Lapidary Journal, Gems and Minerals, Rock and Gem, Mineral Digest, Mineralogist, Gems and Gemology, Journal...

Retrieved 5 February 2017. Owens, George (1957). "The Amateur Lapidary". Rocks & Minerals. 32 (9–10): 471. Bibcode:1957RoMin..32..469O. doi:10.1080/00357529...