APPLICATIONS: | Ornamental stone, pigment, minor ore of copper, and jewelry. |
ASSOCIATED MINERALS: | Malachite, limonite, calcite, cerussite, quartz, chalcopyrite, native copper, cuprite, chrysocolla, aurichalite, shattuckite, liroconite, connellite and other oxidized copper minerals. |
ATROLOGICAL SIGN: | Sagittarius |
CHEMICAL STRUCTURE: | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2, Copper Carbonate Hydroxide. |
CLASS: | Carbonates. |
CLEAVAGE: | Good in one direction and fair in another. |
COLOR: | Azure, deep blue or pale blue if found in small crystals or crusts. |
CRYSTRAL HABITS: | Irregular blades with wedge shaped terminations. Aggregate crusts and radiating, botryoidal, nodular and earthy masses. |
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: | Monoclinic, 2/m. |
FIELD INDICATORS: | Color, softness, crystal habits and associations. |
FRACTURE: | Conchoidal and brittle. |
GEOGRAPHY: | Lasal, Utah; Bisbee, Arizona and New Mexico, USA; Mexico; Tsumeb, Nambia; Shaba, Congo; Toussit, Morocco; Australia and in many locations in Europe. |
HARDNESS: | 3.5-4. |
LUSTER: | Vitreous to dull depending on habit. |
METAPHYSICAL: | Known as the "stone of heaven." It provides guidance using the third-eye and allows for precise verbalization of psychic experiences. It provides insight into all areas of ones life. It controls the flow of energy and emits the precise amount of energy for a required situation. It eliminates your subconscious indecisions and worries while enhancing ones creativity. It enhances self-confidence allowing for invinciblity when required. Native Americans have used Azurite for facilitate communication with spiritual guides. The Mayans used Azurite to stimulate and inspire the mystical and psychic self, also for transfer of information, knowledge and wisdom via thought (ESP). It aids in the alignment of the chakras and to attune the physical body to ethereal nervous system, providing unimpaired flow of energy. It works well in cases of energy blockages. When used during radionic analysis or when used as a pendulum, the energy of the stone permeates the energy of the user and points to the problem(s). In meditation, it allows relaxation and provides for easy entry to the void state of no-mind. It stimulates awareness, precision and global thought. |
PHYSICAL: | It has been used in the treatment of spinal alignment, skeletal deformations, circulatory disorders, flush the body of toxins, stimulate synapses, spasms and tics. |
TRANSPARENCY: | Transparent if in thin crystals, otherwise translucent to opaque. |
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: | 3.7+. |
STREAK: | Blue. |
VIBRATES: | To the number 1. |
