Amazonite, a member of the feldspar family, takes its name from a legend told by early explorers of South America, according to which the women of a tribe in northern Brazil offered it to the men of a neighbouring tribe. The region itself was named Amazonia.
It comes mainly from Brazil, Madagascar, India, the USA and Russia.
Amazonite has a hardness of 6.5 on the Mohs scale.
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