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February 5, 1770, birthday of French naturalist & mineralogist Alexandre Brongniart. Together with Cuvier he published one of the 1st stratigraphic sections & geological maps in 1808, showing the stratigraphy of the basin of Paris
https://t.co/4SHUDIfYdF

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2023-02-06

John Mawe was a mineralogist and a member of Royal Geological Society of Cornwall who owned a shop on The Strand. This image is from his 1813 work A Treatise on Diamonds.

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2021-06-10

🇪🇸 En este mundo, las “piedras” son el pilar central de la vida. El mineralogista Akeboshi visita una colonia subterránea donde conoce a un muchacho que tiene el pie izquierdo petrificado. ¡Aragane no Ko empieza en MANGA Plus!

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2020-12-22

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D6-Rivals

Heimir the dwarf ('s character) and Daeraouenn the dark elf (mine) are both mineralogists... but they don't get on too well 😂

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2020-10-06

We have a gem of a for you today, John Mawe's 1813 Treatise on Diamonds. Mawe was a British mineralogist who opened a shop on The Strand in 1811 close to where the IET is now based in Savoy Place.

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2020-03-09

February 5, 1770, birthday of French naturalist & mineralogist Alexandre Brongniart. Together with Cuvier he published one of the 1st stratigraphic sections & geological maps in 1808, showing the stratigraphy of the basin of Paris
⚒ https://t.co/4SHUDIfYdF

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2020-02-05

September 29, 1839, German mineralogist💎Friedrich "Hardness Scale" Mohs💎dies during a fieldtrip to Agordo (Dolomites, Italy). Mohs original hammer⚒️, hardness set and a letter to his wife (including flower 🌼) https://t.co/a7WbdJSvZF

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2019-09-29


Martine Bertereau- French & the first female in the 17th century.
Read her courageous story in detail here- https://t.co/V00HuA5492
Written & illustrated by

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2019-07-15

this mineralogist showed me micrographs of the raw diamond she studied as I drew her.

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2015-08-08