Sodalite, a crystal of insight and intuition, promotes harmony and aids in communication. Known for enhancing self-trust and mental clarity, it's beneficial during periods of transition or uncertainty. Carry or place near workspaces.
An oval shape handmade #earrings with a hanging stone from chain made with #SterlingSilver. It's available with other stones too, in these photos you see them with blue #sodalite! A perfect #gift for a beloved person or yourself!
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I voted for #stibnite because of its awesome significance for humankind throughout the ages, but I do like seeing #sodalite in building stones. This photo is from the front of a Deutsche Bank in Berlin. #MinCup23
Here is my lapis lazuli dice set from @urwizards along with a necklace I made using rhodochrosite, jade, and lapis lazuli beads. Lazurite, the blue mineral in the lapis is a member of the #sodalite group. #MinCup23
Today's vote is based on my #DnDcharacter, Lapisbee the druid gnome. Lazurite, the blue mineral in lapis lazuli is a member of the #sodalite group. Blue beats sparkly this time. #MinCup23
It’s a difficult decision for todays #MinCup23. I love blue minerals of all sorts, but I also love ore minerals. In the end, I chose the antimony ore #stibnite over #sodalite simply for the fact that I had fun collecting once
Glenn Poirier (on of the authors of the Mont Saint-Hilaire mineral book) and Paula Piilonen visited a new #sodalite locality in #BritishColumbia for the Canadian Museum of Nature, #Ottawa.
#Sodalite is one of over 400 mineral type found in a quarry at Mont Saint-Hilaire, east of #Montreal, where an alkali-rich mafic magma intruded carbonates.
#MinCup23#Stibnite vs #sodalite. Both excellent minerals, but I'm going for sleek metallic stibnite. It's a much more beautiful word to me, and it contains the also-excellently named element, antimony. Here's a wonderful specimen of stibnite (about 25cm across!) in the collections of the Hunterian museum, from the Sovacon mine, in Bolivia, which in the early 1980s produced a bonanza of great specimens.🥰 😊
Okay, #stibnite vs #sodalite. Stibnite is cool, but I have to be #TeamSodalite in this matchup. I've always been fascinated by sodalite and all of the related #nephelinesyenite minerals that only occur in very special silica poor or absent melts. They are like the #BaltimoreOrioles kicking ass over the #Yankees (and I already championed #Quartz as the Yankees). Plus, sodalite is an awesome blue color and flourescent under UV. How cool is that!!!!???? #MinCup23
So, what does it take to be a silica deficient magma like those that produce #Sodalite? Well, the entire earth is 32%Fe, 30%O, 15%Si & it drops off quick. But the crust is 47%O, 28%Si, 8%Al, 5%Fe. You need to remove that 28% for #NephileneSyenite rock so the source material itself must be silica deprived. Magmas created from quartz-poor sources include deep marine subduction zones where ocean floor sediments are clayey, calcareous, high in AL but also low in silica, which is rare! #MinCup23
Now the cool thing about #NephilineSyenite is that yes, there will be a sizeable proportion of silica containing alkali feldspar. #Sodalite, #Nephiline and others, if present, crystallize AFTER the available Si is used up. So they may be vein-filling or adjacent in the matrix. But if they are present, that's definitive for a silica poor source magma. Anyway, VOTE SODALITE! #TeamSodalite#MinCup23
#Sodalite is a dark blue or sometimes white or yellow mineral belonging to the alumosilicates. It is sometimes used as a gemstone, but not as a pigment, because its streak color is white.