APPLICATIONS: | Mineral specimens. |
ASSOCIATED MINERALS: | Augite, nepheline, andradite, barite, quartz, spessartine, riebeckite, biotite, sodalite and albite. |
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Pisces. |
CHEMICAL STRUCTURE: | NaFeSi2O6, Sodium Iron Silicate. |
CLASS: | Silicates. |
CLEAVAGE: | Perfect in two directions at near 90 degree angles. |
COLOR: | Black to greenish or brownish black. |
CRYSTAL HABITS: | Long prismatic crystals terminated by a steep asymmetrical pyramid. Also as disseminated grains, compact and fibrous. |
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: | Monoclinic, 2/m. |
FIELD INDICATORS: | Crystal habit, density, cleavage, color and hardness. |
FRACTURE: | Uneven. |
GENERAL INFORMATION: | Splinters or thin edges are translucent green. |
GEOGRAPHY: | Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada; Kongsberg, Norway; Narsarssuk, Greenland; Kola Peninsula, Russia; Magnet Cove Arkansas, USA; Kenya; Scotland and Nigeria. |
GROUP: | Pyroxenes. |
HARDNESS: | 6 - 6.5. |
LUSTER: | Vitreous. |
METAPHYSICAL: | Provides the strength for one to be true to oneself. Brings acceptance to the self and dispenses group pressure. This mineral is an excellent for energy generation. It can concentrate the positive energy into an area and interacts with all who are present, providing revitalizing, mental stimulation, concentration of healing energy for other minerals and unifying the group effort. It has been used to remove emotional blocks, for one to reflect personal attitudes, opinions, conceptions and to accept the state of sufficiency. It strengthens personal integrity and conviction. |
PHYSICAL: | Has been used in treatment for deficiencies in the immune system, for protection from psychic attack and negative energy and it increases the amount of energy applied by other minerals when used in any healing situation. |
TRANSPARENCY: | Generally opaque to translucent. |
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: | 3.5 - 3.6. |
STREAK: | White or gray. |
SUBCLASS: | Inosilicates. |
VIBRATES: | To the number 5. |
