Lapis Lazuli Bangle

Shape Size: 14mm

Bracelet Size: 16,5cm

Color: Rich, deep blue, often with white calcite and golden pyrite inclusions.

Clarity: Opaque with a glossy luster.

Shape: Commonly found in polished cabochons, beads, and intricate carvings.

Intellectual Enhancement: Lapis Lazuli stimulates the intellect, enhancing memory, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It is ideal for students, researchers, and anyone engaged in intellectual pursuits.

Communication: Associated with the throat chakra, Lapis Lazuli promotes clear, truthful expression and enhances communication skills. It is particularly beneficial for speakers, writers, and other communicators.

Spiritual Insight: This stone is known for opening the third eye chakra, promoting spiritual awareness, psychic vision, and a deeper understanding of the universe.

Clear Quartz: Amplifies Lapis Lazuli’s properties of clarity and insight.

Sodalite: Enhances Lapis Lazuli’s intellectual and communicative properties.

Amethyst: Complements Lapis Lazuli in spiritual exploration and psychic development.

Physical Properties: Lapis Lazuli is not a mineral but a rock composed of multiple minerals, primarily lazurite, which gives it the rich blue color. It has a hardness of 5-5.5 on the Mohs scale, making it relatively soft and sensitive to high pressure and heat.

Optical Properties: Lapis Lazuli is known for its intense blue color and the beautiful contrast provided by pyrite and calcite inclusions.

Formation: It typically forms in limestone and marble through contact metamorphism and is mined in several parts of the world, most notably in Afghanistan.

Applications: Widely used in jewelry, decorative items, and historically significant artifacts. Lapis Lazuli is also ground down for use as a pigment in painting and fabric dye.