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Lapis
Lazuli is a gemstone compared to stars in the sky.
Stone's names: Lapis Lazuli, Lazurite.
Color: Lapis Lazuli occurs
in various shades of blue with some qualities being speckled with
white calcite and some with yellow pyrite. The finest Lapis Lazuli
is even blue color with little or no veining from other elements.
Description: Lapis lazuli
is a semiprecious stone valued for its deep blue color. The source
of the pigment ultramarine, Lapis lazuli is not a mineral but
a rock colored by lazurite. In addition to the sodalite minerals
in lapis lazuli, small amounts of white calcite and of pyrite
crystals are usually present.
Because lapis is a rock of varying composition, its physical properties
are variable.
The name's origin: The
name lapis comes from word pencil in Spanish.
Wedding anniversary: Lapis
Lazuli is the anniversary gemstone for the 7th and 9th year of
marriage.
Care and treatment: Lapis
Lazuli can easily be scratched or chipped. Water can dissolve
the stone's protective coatings, hence clean your lapis lazuli
jewelry with a soft dry cloth.
From the stone history:
Lapis Lazuli with deep azure blue color, often flecked with golden
pyrite inclusions, was treasured by ancient Babylonian and Egyptian
civilizations and often worn by royalty. Lapis lazuli was widely
used by Egyptians for cosmetics and painting . Persian legend
says that the heavens owed their blue color to a massive slab
of Lapis upon which the earth rested. Lapis Lazuli was believed
to be a sacred stone, buried with the dead to protect and guide
them in the afterlife.
Lapis lazili is one of the gemstones, that used in commesso, also
called florentine mosaic. Commesso is a technique of fashioning
pictures with thin, cut-to-shape pieces of brightly colored, semiprecious
stones, developed in Florence in the late 16th century. The stones
most commonly used are agates, quartzes, chalcedonies, jaspers,
granites, porphyries, petrified woods, and lapis lazuli. Commesso
pictures, used mainly for tabletops and small wall panels, range
from emblematic and floral subjects to landscapes.
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For centuries Lapis Lazuli has been prized for jewelry. But it
has also been used to make the beautiful blue paint ultramarine
and has been used as a source of writing instruments. Ultramarine
is used in paints, lacquers, and decorating materials. It has
a particularly brilliant blue color and is very lightfast.
Shopping guide: Lapis lazuli
has been widely used as a semiprecious stone throughout history.
It is most often seen as a necklace of beads or carved pendants.
Fine natural Lapis Lazuli can be rather pricey. Jewelry with the
high quality stones with no calcite or pyrite veins can be quite
expensive. Much of the jewelry that is sold as Lapis is an artificially
colored jasper from Germany that shows colorless specks of clear,
crystallized quartz and never the goldlike flecks of pyrite.
Healing ability: The stone
is said to increase psychic abilities. Lapis is said to be a cure
for melancholy and for certain types of fever. Lapis lazuli eliminates
negative emotions. It relieves sore throat pain.
Mystical power: Traditionally
believed to increase mental clarity, virility, and calm. Lapis
Lazuli is energy focuser for teachers, lecturers and speakers.
Enhances creative self-expression. It is believed to be useful
in relieving depression and promoting spirituality. Lapis Lazuli
is also powerful during meditation.
Deposits: The main supplies
of Lapis Lazuli are found in the Afghanistan, Egypt, Canada, Chile,
the US, and South America. The most important sources are the
mines in Badakhshan, northeastern Afghanistan, and near Ovalle,
Chile, where gemstone is usually pale rather than deep blue.
Afghanistan Deposits: For the last 5000
years Lapis is being mined out from Badakhshan. Color is Berlin
Blue ( Madan-e-char) to light blue ( Madan-e-Panch).
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