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Carolane necklace
This delicate necklace combines medallion, chic pearl and a pink semi-precious stone stick for a style as unique as you are.
Materials: freshwater pearl, semi-precious Rodochrosite stone, gold plated metal
Lobster clasp
Gold plated chain: length 17 "
History of Rhodochrosite (pink) stone:
It was in Argentina around the 13th century, in copper and silver ores, that the Rhodochrosite stone was discovered, more exactly in the northwest, territory of the Inca Empire. Its name comes from the ancient Greek rhodon which means "rose" and from khroma which means "color".
The Incas believed that rhodochrosite symbolized the blood of their former rulers, fossilized, which explains the name sometimes used of "rose inca." "
With the fall of the Inca Empire, the mines were abandoned and the rhodochrosite fell into oblivion.
It was recognized at the end of the 18th century by Cronstedt Bergmann and Kirwan under the name of "Manganese oxidized by aerial acid". In 1806, René Just Haüy presented it as "Oxidized carbonate manganese". But it was not until 1813 that Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann definitively gave it the name of rhodochrosite.
Currently, it is the national stone of Argentina. It is also the official Colorado stone in the United States.