thulite (n) a pink or red variety of zoisite. It is sometimes known as rosaline.
Thulite
A massive pinkish-red variety of Zoisite colored by Manganese. It is also polished or carved to make small ornaments and cabochons.
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Thulite is a cabing material and is not found in transparent rough. It is usually pink to brown in color.
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Thulite, the dense massive red or mottled pink and white variety, found in manganese deposits in Norway, Austria, Italy, western Australia, and in North Carolina, can be confused with rhodonite.
Lapis Nevada is a pink and green gemstone, and is composed of no fewer than 11 minerals: thulite, scapolite, sericite, diopside and epidote, with minor amounts of feldspar, quartz, zoisite, clinozoisite, actinolite and apatite.
Zoisite along with Thulite, is used as ring stones. But Tanzanite because of its fragility is not that much appropriate a gem for making jewelries. However, Tanzanite has an interesting discovery history attached to its name.
Zoisite was the mineral name for a series of opaque to translucent varieties, of which only two are used as gemstones: massive pink colored thulite and a brilliant apple-green zoisite (which also occurs in grayish-white, gray, yellowish-brown, ...
Occurrence:Tanzania (tanzanite), Kenya (anyolite), Norway (thulite), Switzerland, Austria, India, Pakistan, and the USA.
Zoisite
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Source: Tanzania (Tanzanite), Kenya (Zoisite: Anyolite), Norway (Zoisite: Thulite)
Birthstone: December (Alternate: Turquoise, Zircon) ...
Prior to this the only varieties of Zoisite that had some claim to being a gem material were the massive pink variety known as thulite and the green chrome-rich material, which occurs as matrix for large hexagonal crystals of ruby found in Tanzania.
Zoisite has three known forms: anyolite (a green matrix containing rubies), tanzanite (transparent, blue-violet containing strontium), and thulite (opaque pink crystals containing manganese).
Zoisite has three know forms of which Tanzanite is considered a gemstone. Other forms are anyolite, a green matrix containing rubies, and thulite, opaque pink crystals containing manganese.
Tusionite
Tyuyamunite Varieties that are not valid species:
Tanzanite (variety of Zoisite)
Thulite (variety of Zoisite)
Travertine (form of calcium carbonate)
Tsavorite (gem variety of grossularite garnet) ...
Thulite ...see zoisite
Tincalconite ... see borax
Topaz ...an aluminum silicate mineral
Topaz occurs in high-temperature veins, in pegmatites, and in granites and rhyolites, where it is one of the last minerals to form.
 See also: Gemstone, Mineral, Zoisite, Tanzanite, Color
  
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