Diamond inclusions (Mineralogy 💎)

Diamond inclusions are the non-diamond materials that get encapsulated inside diamond during its formation process in the mantle. The trapped materials can be other minerals or fluids like water. Since diamonds have high strength and low reactivity with either the inclusion or the volcanic host rocks which carry the diamond to the Earth's surface, ...

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I don't know if this is epidote, green quartzite, or other thing...
But i love the colors, and the little part with white quartz ✨💚✨

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Striped Flints (*Silex quartzum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

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Byssus-like Carbonate of Copper (*Cuprum carbonatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

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Vitrified Sand tubes (*Quatzum vitrificatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

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Crystallized Oxide of Zinc (*Zincum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

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