APPLICATIONS: | Minor ore of copper and as mineral specimens. |
ASSOCIATED MINERALS: | Quartz, limonite, mimetite, phoenicochroite, willemite, wickenburgite, shattuckite, copper, papagoite, plancheite, duftite and other secondary copper minerals. |
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Virgo |
CHEMICAL STRUCTURE: | (K, Na)Cu7Al(Si3O8)3(OH)6 - 3H2O, Hydrated Potassium Sodium Copper Aluminum Silicate Hydroxide. |
CLASS: | Silicates. |
CLEAVAGE: | Perfect. |
COLOR: | Blue-green to light green. |
CRYSTRAL HABITS: | Acicular to thin prismatic crystals often found as spherules or sprays of acicular radial crystal clusters and as massive specimens. |
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: | Triclinic, bar 1. |
FIELD INDICATORS: | Color, crystal habit, locality and associations. |
GENRAL INFORMATION: | MAinly in the form of phantoms in crystals. |
GEOGRAPHY: | New Cornelia Mine, Ajo District, Pima County and Wickenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA and the Messina Republic, South Africa. |
HARDNESS: | 3.5. |
LUSTER: | Dull to vitreous. |
METAPHYSICAL: | Produces a melding between the heart chakra and the throat chakra and creates speaking from the heart. This creates a peacefulness in ones emotional system and an acceptance of surroundings, circumstances and environment. Also, used to eliminate hostility, anger, abrasiveness, jealousy, prejudice and all negative attributes. It enhances creativity and helps with communication. It stimulates a bonding between souls on the Earth plane that have agreed to meet again during this lifetime. It removes dysfunctional energy and replaces it with pure loving energy. |
TRANSPARENCY: | Transparent to translucent. |
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: | 2.9 - 3.0. |
STREAK: | Pale greenish white. |
SUBCLASS: | Phyllosilicates. |
VIBRATES: | To the number 6 |
