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Gems and Minerals Exhibition in Paris



There is a new exhibition of gems and minerals in Paris, called ‘Treasures of the Earth’ which includes amazing Giant Crystals. 

The Mineralogy collection of the Natural History Museum (MNHN) in Paris contains about 770,000 specimens. It began in 1793 with the Royal collection, with some samples from 1626 under the reign of King Louis XIII.

The collection includes giant and microscopic samples of raw minerals, as well as polished gemstones. The exhibition has 340 gems and minerals on display.

The museum gained the Giant Crystals in 1987 and there are many of them. The collection also includes several meteorites. 

The exhibition is in a neoclassical building with a two-columned portico. 

 
Agate Quartz

Jasper Quartz

Amethyst Quartz, Brazil

Quartz Agate, Uruguay

Graphite Limestone, Italy

Fossilized Marine Cephalopods in Limestone, Madagascar

Giant Crystals

Giant Crystals

Meteroite (1.11 kilograms), Argentina 1951

Beryl, Madagascar 1999

Quartz Hyalin, France

Mercury

Azurite and Malachite, USA

Liddicoatite, Madagascar 2011

Pyromorphite, China

Flourite and Smoked Quartz, France 2010

Opal, Australia 1991

'Cupidon' Quartz, Madagascar 2017

Rhodocrosite, Argentina 1988


Topaz, Russia 1955

Mesolite on Stilbite, India 2003

Cavansite on Stibnite, India 1999

Amber, Poland

Rhodochrosite, USA

Elbaite Rubellite, USA 1903

Orthose, Madagascar 1912


Meteorite (103 kilograms), Chili 1866






MARTINA NICOLLSis an international aid and development consultant, and the authorof:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom(2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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