About the product:

🪨 Mineral Type: Green Tourmaline/Verdelite on a bed of faceted quartz crystals

🌍 ⛏️ Origin: Afghanistan

📐 Dimensions: 47 millimeters long x 40 wide x 36 high

⚖️ Weight : 38.7 grams

• 📋 Mineralogical sheet:

  Property	Details

  Name	Green tourmaline ( Verdelite )

  Family

  Tourmaline group (variety of Elbaite)

  Composition

  Complex silicate of boron, aluminum, sodium, lithium, iron or magnesium

  Color

  Light green, olive green, deep green, sometimes emerald

  Hardness (Mohs)

  7 – 7.5

  Density

  3 – 3.2 g/cm³

  Crystal system

  Hexagonal (trigonal)

  Glow

  Glassy

  Transparency

  Transparent to translucent

  Origin / Deposits

  Brazil, Mozambique, Nigeria, Madagascar, Afghanistan, Pakistan

  Training

  Granitic pegmatites and metamorphic rocks

  Special feature

  Variety sought after for its natural shades reminiscent of emerald

  Virtues / Lithotherapy

  - Connection to nature 🌿 - Vitality and healing energy - Promotes openness of the heart 💚 and compassion - Brings courage and endurance

  Purification

  Clear water, gentle fumigation

  Recharging

  Soft sunlight, moonlight, quartz clusters

  Use	Jewelry, meditation, stone of balance and prosperity

  Value

  Variable depending on the intensity of the green and the purity of the crystal

  Short story / Anecdote

  Long confused with emerald, it was used as a stone of prosperity and growth.