Pallasites contain big, beautiful olive-green crystals - a form of magnesium-iron silicate called olivine - embedded entirely in metal. Sometimes the olivine does not occur as a single crystal but as ...

The study of titanium silicate minerals is a fascinating area within mineralogy that focuses on the crystal structures and chemical properties of minerals containing titanium and silicon.

(Garnet and peridot are both silicate gemstones, formed when crystals of silicon cool out of the magma that makes up our planet's interior. Peridot forms in the presence of divalent cations ...