Celestial stone, as its original name from the Arabic, its appearance really reminds heaven. There is bluer than just stone lapis lazuli, as it contains a rare mineral lapis lazuli, which were previously ground to a powder and used for the production of paints called ultramarine.

Lapis lazuli color:

• darker blue color with golden particles
• white patches of quartz

Lapis lazuli occurrence:

• especially Afghanistan
• Chile, Argentina, USA, Canada, Russia

Lapis lazuli gallery

The most beautiful and best quality lapis lazuli comes from Afghanistan, just as these stones are cut into an oval shape. Another interesting site is in Russia, where the stones come in rather lighter shades.

Lapis lazuli owes its infinitely rare blue mineral lapis lazuli behalf. Now this mineral causes the color of the night sky, which glitters like stars in the night sky. These stars or stellar dust is nothing more than pieces of golden pyrite, which are an integral part of this mineral. Lapis lazuli may still contain pieces of quartz, which are channeled into strips and technically they are called matrix.

Lapis lazuli and its beautiful color it directly determines the production of beautiful jewelry. The popularity of this stone has been known since ancient times, for lapis lazuli appears on beautiful jewelry from ancient Egypt, even the ruler much admired mask of Tutankhamun, which is in the Cairo Museum people are going to look all over the world.

Author: E-kameny.cz, October 25, 2012 © Copyright, all rights reserved