It seemed a little crazy that there was nothing in gemmological literature characterizing faceted phenakite from the region formerly known as Volodarsk-Volynski (‘Khoroshiv’ since 2015). This was a little ironic since the region is the type-locality for phenakite. At the behest of the Journal of Gemmology’s editor, Brendan Laurs, I set about rectifying this.
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