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This mineral was first discovered in samples from the Flor de Peña mine (Mexico, Nuevo Leon) collected by Louis C. A. Legrand (1861-1920), a collector and Belgian mining engineer who supervised the work at the mine.
This mineral of the pyroxenoid family, named after the place of the first find - Tetela de Xonotla (Tetela de Xonotla, Puebla, Mexico), very often forms crystal-grained, unremarkable masses, but sometimes in the form of spherulitic aggregates of needle-like crystals, it can act as a decorative collection material .
Milarite is rarely used in the form of faceted stones, but still this beryllosilicate from the milarite-osumite group can be found in jewelry.
First of all, when we talk about the names of stones associated with the world of fruits, pomegranates come to mind first of all - and this, of course, is a true association.
Nowadays, souvenirs are also made from the shell of ostrich eggs, but such dishes are rare in jewelry, but still exist, and not only from ostrich shells.
