Blue Kyanite With Quartz 452g Specimen From Minas Gerais Brazil Specimen

Beautiful Blue kyanite specimen from Brazil. Beautiful shades of blue and white make up this lovely specimen. Beautiful blading one side has quartz mixed in. 452g 15.9ozGem Lore and Info:Kyanite is an aluminum silicate mineral, often occurring as long, striated bladed crystals that may be transparent or translucent with a pearly sheen. The most common colors in metaphysical use are blue streaked with white, indigo, green, and black, though Kyanite may occur in white, gray, pink, yellow, and most recently discovered orange. Kyanite comes from the Greek work, khans or kyanos, meaning "deep blue," and was once commonly called Disthene, which means "two strengths. Its most identifiable feature is its anisotropism, the ability to cleave perfectly in two directions with two distinctly different hardnesses on the perpendicular axes. Kyanite is valuable in the industrial world for heat resistance, used in high refractory porcelain, refractory bricks, mortars, kiln furniture and foundry molds,