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Selenite Blade Mineral Specimen

$60.00

This beautiful piece of selenite has an  amazing blade that makes the specimen look like a sculpture.

A great addition to any mineral collection.

Selenite is known to clear and restore all the chakras and the aura.

From Latin, selenites, Greek, selene literally translating to “Moon”. Ranges from transparent to pearly luminosity, is an evaporate that has 4 varieties of the mineral gypsum, selenite, satin spar, desert rose and gypsum flower.

Selenite, along with other forms of gypsum, is used in plaster, soil conditioners, paint fillers, cement retardants, and drywall products. According to modern metaphysical practitioners, selenite conveys white light that calms troubled minds, stabilizes emotions, and clarifies thoughts.

Selenite is hydrous calcium sulfate, the crystalline variety of gypsum that crystallizes in the monoclinic system as transparent-to-translucent, prismatic or bladed crystals with distinct, rhombic form. It is an abundant mineral that forms in sedimentary formations in association with barite and dolomite.
Approx. Size Range: 2.25″ X 2.5″ X 3.5″

Locality: Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico

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Selenite Blade Mineral Specimen

GYPSUM (var. SELENITE)

 

HISTORY, NAME, LOCALITIES: Gypsum, pronounced JIP-sum, is hydrous calcium sulfate.  Its name stems from the Greek gypsos, or “plaster,” alluding to one of its early uses.  Selenite, pronounced SELL-en-ite, is the crystalline variety of gypsum.  Its name is derived from the Greek selénités, literally “stone of the moon” (from seléné, or “moon”), referring to the moon-like, pearly luster of its cleavage surfaces.  Collecting localities are found in Canada, Peru, Mexico, Spain, and the United States (Oklahoma, Utah, New York, Tennessee, and Nevada).

 

MINERALOGY, PROPERTIES, OCCURRENCE: The selenite variety of gypsum [hydrous calcium sulfate, CaSO4·2H2O] crystallizes in the monoclinic system as prismatic or bladed crystals with distinct rhombic form, and as arrowhead-shaped twins with beveled edges.  Pure selenite is colorless or white, but impurities create a range of pale grays, yellows, reds, and browns.  Selenite is transparent to translucent with a hardness of 1.5-2.0, perfect cleavage in one direction, vitreous to pearly luster, and a specific gravity of 2.3-2.4.  It occurs mainly in chemical-sedimentary, marine-evaporite formations of sandstone, limestone, or rock salt.

 

METAPHYSICAL PROPERTIES, LORE, USES: Selenite, along with other forms of gypsum, is used in plaster, soil conditioners, paint fillers, cement retardants, and drywall products.  According to modern metaphysical practitioners, selenite conveys white light that calms troubled minds, stabilizes emotions, and clarifies thoughts.

 

COLLECTORS’ INFORMATION:  The most collectible selenite crystals have water-clear transparency, a range of pale colors, and well-developed, rhombic crystals.

 

 

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