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This Stone Is Part of Your Mobile Phone

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Three centuries ago, this stone, originally discovered in Russia, was one of the world’s most sought-after. The supply was outnumbered by demand manifoldly. In Russia, the stone was out of reach for ordinary people, instead it was massively exported abroad.
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A ’Martian Stone’

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This mineral was first found in Russia. Its discovery credit could have been assigned to Russian scientists, if the find had been registered properly. In reality, the glory of discoverers was given to German geologists, who even named this mineral after Goethe, a German writer and statesman.
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The Stone That Is More Precious Than a Diamond

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It is forecasted that the price on this stone will only go up. As of today, it has already entered the top five best selling minerals. This gem was shot in one of the most popular box office movies of the XX century and was adopted as a hallmark of the world’s oldest jewellery brand.
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A stone that bursts into green flames

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This stone’s colour is generally considered as one of the most rare and beautiful. The world’s greatest artists and iconographers were inspired by its sky-blue colour. Its blue lustre has been brightening the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican for centuries.
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A stone people die for

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More than a hundred tons of this stone each year are illegally mined and exported from Russia. Damage to the state budget is estimated to be at the very least tens of billions of dollars.
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A Stone That Can Actually Heal People

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This stone is without a doubt one of the most useful minerals on our planet. It has been over a few centuries since people started applying it for treatment of severe illnesses and human health protection in general. Health resorts of Karlovy Vary or Baden-Baden would have never been built if this stone had never existed in the first place.
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The stone whose price is getting higher with each day

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The price on this mineral continues breaking historical records. Over the last decade, it has become one of the most highly demanded stones: the greatest and most famous jewellery houses from all over the world use this gem in their collections while the purchase of this stone is reasonably considered a profitable investment.
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The ”Stone Killer”

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This mineral was for a very long time associated mostly with death, since over the course of the centuries it had been a key ingredient of multiple poisons - among its victims were Pope Alexander VI, Mozart, Napoleon, Francesco I (de’ Medici), René Descartes and others.
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A Stone to Screen You

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For as long as four centuries, even the most experienced geologists were mistaking this mineral for a precious stone. There was a great potential for sphalerite: some samples were even more expensive than diamonds. Unfortunately, everyone had fallen for a thought the stone was a ”fake” and, consecutively, it was left forgotten for hundreds of years.
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A stone even hydrochloric acid can’t dissolve

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The truly specific feature of this black and easily forgettable stone is that it in a matter of seconds it can transform into a shining diamond. The metal used to power mobile phones and different other kinds of gadgets is called graphite.
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