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Macphersonite
Luster is adamantine to resinous.Transparency: Crystals are transparent to translucent.
Crystal System is orthorhombic; 2 m m
Crystal Habits include tabular or pseudohexagonal crystals.
Cleavage is perfect in one direction.
Fracture is uneven.
Specific Gravity is 6.5 - 6.6 (very heavy for a translucent mineral)
Streak is white.
Other Characteristics Some specimens are fluorescent yellow.
Associated Minerals include leadhillite, galena, anglesite, linarite and cerussite.
Notable Occurrences include the type localities of Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Strathclyde, Scotland and Aregentolle Mine, Saint-Prix, Saone-et-Loire, France and at least one specimen at Moon Anchor Mine, Maricopa County, Arizona.
Best Field Indicators: Crystal habit, color, luster, density, fluorescence and locality.
Colors: colorless, white, amber or brownish
Hardness: 2.5 to 3
Magnesite
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Luster is vitreous.
Transparency crystals are translucent to transparent only in individual crystals.
Crystal System is trigonal; bar 3 2/m
Crystal Habits are usually massive forms such as lamellar, fiberous and course to fine grained rocks.
Crystals are extremely rare, but when found are in the form of rhombohedrons or hexagonal prisms with a pinacoid termination.
Cleavage is perfect in three directions forming rhombohedrons.
Fracture is conchoidal to uneven.
Specific Gravity is approximately 3.0 (average)
Streak is white.
Associated Minerals calcite, dolomite, aragonite, strontianite and serpentine.
Other Characteristics: effervesces easily only in hot dilute hydrochloric acid.
Notable Occurrences include Austria; Bahia, Brazil; Korea; China; California, USA and many European localities.
Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, reaction to acid, occurrence and cleavage.
Colors: white to yellowish
Hardness: 4 to 4.5
Magnetite
Lodestone (Magnetite) is used in many ways.It can align the chakras, and balance yin/yang energies.
It is used to lessen or dispel grief, fear, anger, confusion, and attachment.
It helps relieve burdens and increase energy and endurance.
It is said to have been used to make soldiers invulnerable.
Lodestone has a receptive, attracting energy that attracts power, as well as good fortune, and love.
It also guards against infidelity.
Lodestone is related to the astrological signs of Aries, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Virgo.
It is said to strengthen the circulatory system, help with healing blood and bleeding problems, alleviate pain, boost the immune system, relieve agitation and depression.
Magically, lodestone is used for its power of attraction, and can be placed on an altar or worn during a ritual to increase a spell's power.
It's been used for millennia for amulets and talismans.
Lodestone is excellent for grounding and protection from evil and spells.
Luster is metallic to dull.
Transparency: Crystals are opaque.
Crystal System is isometric; 4/m bar 3 2/m
Crystal Habits are typically octahedrons but rarely rhombododecahedron and other isometric forms, most commonly found massive or granular.
Twinning of octahedrons into spinel law twins is seen occasionally.
Cleavage is absent although octahedral parting can be seen on some specimens.
Fracture is conchoidal.
Specific Gravity is 5.1+ (average for metallic minerals)
Streak is black.
Associated Minerals are talc and chlorite (schists), pyrite and hematite.
Other Characteristics: Magnetism stronger in massive examples than in crystals, striations on crystal faces (not always seen).
Notable Occurrences include South Africa, Germany, Russia and many localities in the USA.
Best Field Indicators are magnetism, crystal habit and streak.
Colors: black, metallic and opaque
Hardness: 6
Malachite
Malachite has a steady, pulsing electromagnetic energy and high copper content.Malachite and azurite are the same (chemically) both are essentially Copper Carbonate.
The only difference is the ordering of the elements in the molecule.
On brow: Stimulates physical and psychic vision, concentration.
Powerful healer with azurite or chrysocolla for healing: Releases and draws out pain, inflammation, depression, anger; heals blocks.
Protects well by powerfully cleaning the auric field, rapidly absorbing undesirable energies, including: computer, TV, and other radiation, etc.
Place in the 4 corners of a room to cleanse area.
Clean these stones very frequently.
Often variegated and is one of the basic ores of Copper.
Should be used with extreme care because it can amplify negative qualities.
Caution must always be aware of this stillness properties when wearing it as jewelry.
However, Malachite also magnifies the positive, and so it is useful if your mood is definitely on the upswing.
It is useful for relaxation and neurological disorders as well as tissue regeneration.
Luster is dull in massive forms and silky as crystals.
Transparency is opaque in massive form and translucent in crystalline forms.
Crystal System is monoclinic; 2/m.
Crystal Habitsin its massive forms are botryoidal, stalactitic or globular.
Crystals are acicular or fibrous and form in tufts and encrustations.
Frequently found as pseudomorphs of azurite.
Cleavage is good in one direction but rarely seen.
Fracture is conchoidal to splintery.
Specific Gravity is 3.9+ (slightly heavy).
Streak is green.
Other Characteristics: Weakly effervesces in acid.
Associated Minerals include limonite, chalcopyrite, bornite, native copper, calcite, cuprite, azurite, chrysocolla and many rare copper minerals such as kolwezite, shattuckite, antlerite, brochantite, graemite, aurichalcite, sphaerocobaltite, atacamite, chalcophyllite, conichalcite, rosasite, chalcosiderite, clinoclase, cornetite, duftite, libethenite, liroconite, mixite and mottramite among others.
Notable Occurrences include many classic mineral localities such as Shaba, Congo; Tsumeb, Nambia; Ural mountains, Russia; Mexico; several sites in Australia; England and several localities in the Southwestern United States especially in Arizona, USA.
Best Field Indicators are color banding, softness, associations and reaction to acid.
Colors: light green to strong green, usually banded
Hardness: 3.5 to 4
Manganbabingtonite
Luster is vitreous, submetallic to dull.Transparency: Crystals are generally opaque but thin crystals or splinters can be translucent.
Crystal System is triclinic; bar 1
Crystal Habits include short stocky prismatic crystalsor tabular to platy forms.
Cleavage is good in one direction and perfect in another, these are pinacoidal but are at near right angles to each other giving the appearance of rectangular prisms.
Fracture is uneven to subconchoidal.
Specific Gravity is approximately 3.5 - 3.6 (somewhat above average for translucent minerals)
Streak is brown to gray.
Other Characteristics: Sometimes very weakly magnetic.
Associated Minerals are galena, sphalerite, diopside, hedenbergite, garnets, axinite, babingtonite, polylithionite and calcite.
Notable Occurrences include Santa Teresa Mountains, Graham County, Arizona, USA and Rudnyi Kaskad deposit, Sayan, Russia.
Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, color, locality, associations, cleavage and luster.
Colors: brown to black.
Hardness: 5
Manganese
Colors: steel or silver grey
Manganocalcite
This is a sedimentary formation created through precipitation.Heart/love is a predominant energy in this stone.
This stone gives us "motherly love."
It has a gentle and calming nature and is pink with white bands.
Balances the hormones and lessons anxiety.
Use in love rituals and rights of passage.
Marble
Provides for both clarity and suspension in states of meditation, promotes peak states of meditation, total recall of dreams.
Marcasite (Pyrite)
Marcasite/Pyrite brings the energy of the Sun into the physical.It increases physical stamina, stimulates the intellect and helps to transform thought into intelligent action.
It is a wonderful stone for use in wealth magic or in trying to manifest needed energies.
An excellent shield-stone, pyrite removes negativity from the aura.
Colors: gray-gold, golden with light dark inclusion
Hardness: 6 to 6.5
Massicot
Luster is greasy, earthy to dull.Transparency: Crystals are generally opaque, but thin scales can be transparent.
Crystal System is orthorhombic; 2 2 2.
Crystal Habits include massive, earthy and scaly coatings on other lead minerals.
Cleavage is distinct in two perpendicular directions, but is rarely seen.
Fracture is uneven.
Specific Gravity is 9.6 - 9.7 (Well above average for any mineral)
Streak is light yellow.
Associated Minerals include minium, galena, barite, wulfenite, pyromorphite, mimetite, bindheimite, cerussite, lead and sphalerite.
Notable Occurrences include Freiberg, Saxony, Germany as well as in Inyo County, California; at the Dogwater Mine, Graham County; Tonopah-Belmont Mine, Maricopa County and Cababi District, Arizona; Potosi, Missouri and at Leadville, Colorado, USA; Sardinia, Italy; Mexico; Hungary; and at Lavrion, Greece.
Colors: yellow to reddish yellow due to minium inclusions
Hardness: 2
Melanite ( Andradite Garnet)
A black type of Andrite.Garnet clan.
Opens our psychic vision for forecasting, divination and seeing the future.
Brings an understanding and acceptance of death.
Reminds us of rebirth, reincarnation and the endless nature of life.
Colors: various shades of black
hardness: 6.5 to 7
Melanophlogite
Luster is vitreous.Transparency crystals are transparent to translucent.
Crystal System is tetragonal or possibly isometric.
Crystal Habits include botryoidal, globular clusters and cubes (if it is isometric, they are cubes; if tetragonal, they are pseudo-cubic crystals).
Cleavage is not present.
Fracture is conchoidal.
Specific Gravity is 2.0+ (well below average)
Streak is white.
Associated Minerals include calcite, sulfur and other sedimentary minerals.
Notable Occurrences are limited to Giona Mine, Girgenti and other sites in Sicily, Italy.
Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, hardness, very low density and locality.
Colors: colorless or white
Hardness: 6.5 to 7
Melanterite
Luster is metallic.Transparency: Crystals are opaque.
Crystal System: Orthorhombic; 2/m 2/m 2/m.
Crystal Habits include intricate arborescent and prismatic striated crystals.
Cyclic twinned crystals are pseudo-hexagonal (six-sided) prisms and pyramids, but these are especially rare.
Commonly found massive.
Cleavage: Not discernible.
Fracture: Hackly.
Specific Gravity is 9.4 - 10 (very heavy for metallic minerals).
Streak is silver.
Other Characteristics: Specimens will tarnish to a yellow or black color with exposure to light.
Associated Minerals include calcite, silver and silver ore minerals.
Notable Occurrences include Wolfach and the Harz Mountains of Germany; Pribram, Czech Republic; Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; Pima and Santa Cruz Counties, Arizona, USA; Atacama, Chile and Cobalt, Ontario, Canada.
Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, streak, density, color, tarnish and luster.
Color: white, green, yellowish green or blue-green
Hardness: 2
Mercury
(see Cinnabar)
Luster is metallic.
Transparency is opaque.
Crystal System does not apply
Crystal Habits spherical droplets, or pools of mercury liquid.
Cleavage does not apply
Fracture does not apply
Streak does not apply
Specific Gravity is 13.5+ (very dense)
Associated Minerals are cinnabar, calomel, and other secondary mercury minerals.
Other Characteristics: Mercury is a liquid! It also expands at a constant rate with a rise in temperature.
Notable Occurrences include Almaden, Spain; Idrija, former Yugoslavia; Italy; California, Oregon, Texas, and Arkansas, USA.
Best Field Indicators its a liquid!
Colors: bright silvery metallic
Hardness: (liquid)
Mesolite
Luster is vitreous.Transparency: crystals are transparent to translucent.
Crystal System is monoclinic; 2/m
Crystal Habits include sprays of needle thin acicular crystals with a slanted domal termination.
Also nodules, fibrous and earthy masses.
Cleavage is perfect in two directions, prismatic. Cleavage is rarely seen due to small crystal size.
Fracture is conchoidal to uneven.
Specific Gravity is approximately 2.2 - 2.4 (very light)
Streak is white.
Other Characteristics: Masses can have a chatoyant (cat's eye) effect.
Associated Minerals are quartz, apophyllite, datolite, heulandite, stilbite and other zeolites.
Notable Occurrences include Poona, India; Giants Causeway, Ireland; Skye, Scotland; Colorado, New Jersey and Oregon, USA and Berufjord, Iceland.
Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, density and associations.
Colors: clear or white
Hardness: 5 to 5.5
Meta-Torbernite
Luster is vitreous or pearly to dull.Transparency: Crystals are translucent to opaque.
Crystal System is tetragonal; 4/m 2/m 2/m.
Crystal Habits include tabular square crystals dominated by two pinacoid faces.
Crystals can look cubic (pseudocubic) too.
Also as crusts, micaceous, foliated and earthy. Many crystals are pseudomorphs of autunite.
Cleavage is perfect in one direction. Fracture is uneven. Specific Gravity is approximately 3.5 - 3.6 (above average for translucent minerals and higher than autunite {3.1- 3.2} due to loss of water molecules).
Streak is a pale yellow.
Other Characteristics: Brightly fluorescent green to yellow-green, radioactive and cleavage sheets are surprisingly brittle.
Associated Minerals include limonite, quartz, pyrite, meta-uranocircite, uranophane, meta-torbernite, autunite, torbernite, uranocircite, uraninite and other uranium minerals.
Notable Occurrences include the Dripping Springs Quartzite in Gila County , Arizona; the Daybreak Mine, Washington and the Miracle Mine and other localities in Kern County, California, USA; St. Austell and Redruth, Cornwall, England; Saxony, Germany and Rum Jungle, Australia.
Best Field Indicators are color, crystal habit, higher density than autunite, fluorescence, radioactivity, associations and cleavage.
Colors: lemon-yellow, greenish yellow to canary yellow (sometimes with a black core, possibly due to uraninite)
Hardness: 2 to 2.5
Miargyrite
Mica
Mica is the second greatest conductor of magnetic energy next to the human brain.Since we are inundated with excess electrical energy in our environments, extra magnetic energy can help to balance the electromagnetic field of the body.
Colors: eggshell-colored, yellowish, bluish, blue
Hardness: 6 to 6.5
Microcline
Luster is vitreous to sometimes pearly or dull if weathered.Transparency crystals are translucent, but usually translucent to opaque.
Crystal System is triclinic; bar 1
Crystal Habits include blocky, or tabular crystals.
Crystals have a nearly rectangular or square cross-section with slightly slanted dome and pinacoid terminations.
Twinning is common.
Crystals can be twinned according to the Albite, Pericline, Carlsbad, Manebach and Baveno laws.
Microcline can be found as a major rock forming component in granites, syenites and in metamorphic gneisses.
Cleavage is perfect in one and good in another direction forming nearly right angled prisms.
Fracture is conchoidal.
Specific Gravity is approximately 2.5 (average)
Streak is white.
Associated Minerals are quartz, muscovite and plagioclase feldspars.
Other Characteristics: Lamellar twinning may cause a grooved effect on crystal and cleavage surfaces that appear as striations. Perthite intergrowths causes a stripped appearance is some specimens.
Notable Occurrences include Pikes Peak region of Colorado and North Carolina among other sites in the USA; Russia; Norway and Madagascar.
Best Field Indicators are occurrence, twinning, color and luster.
Colors: off-white,yellowish, flesh pink, brown or green
Hardness: 6 to 6.5
Microlite
Luster is vitreous to resinous.Transparency: Crystals are generally translucent with darker specimens being opaque.
Crystal System is isometric; 4/m bar 3 2/m
Crystal Habits typically include octahedral crystals that are modified by other isometric forms; also found granular as disseminated grains and massive.
Although the name microlite was applied to the mineral for the tiny crystals that were first found, larger crystals up to 2 cm have been found.
Cleavage is in four directions (octahedral), but is indistinct.
Fracture is subconchoidal to uneven.
Specific Gravity is approximately 4.3 - 5.7 (heavy for non-metallic).
Variation caused by extent of inclusion of trace metals into the structure.
Streak is white or pale yellow to brown.
Other Characteristics: Slightly radioactive.
Associated Minerals include quartz, feldspars, calcite, columbite, tantalite, zircon, biotite, lepidolite, spodumene and simpsonite.
Notable Occurrences include Virgem da Lapa region of Minas Gerais, Brazil; Iveland, Norway; Verutrask, Sweden; Greenland; Wodinga, Australia; Madagascar and Amelia Courthouse, Virginia; Black Hills, South Dakota; Dixon, New Mexico; California; Colorado and many of the rare earth pegmatites of New England, USA.
Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, luster, fracture, color, hardness, radioactivity, associations, environment and specific gravity.
Colors: pale yellow, reddish-brown, red, olive or even emerald green
Hardness: 5 to 5.5
Milarite
Luster is vitreous to dull.Transparency: Crystals are translucent to transparent.
Crystal System is hexagonal; 6/m 2/m 2/m.
Crystal Habits include prismatic crystals with a pinacoidal termination.
Cleavage is poor in one direction.
Fracture is subconchoidal.
Specific Gravity is approximately 2.5 - 2.6 (average)
Streak is white.
Other Characteristics: Some specimens are fluorescent.
Notable Occurrences include the type locality of Val Giuf (Val Milar), Tavetsch, Grischum, Switzerland as well as Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Valencia Mine, Guananajuato, Mexico; Henneberg, Germany; Kola Peninsula, Russia; Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada; Monte Cervandone, Piemonte, Italy; Langesunsfjord, Norway and Maehren, Czech Republic.
Best Field Indicators are hardness, color, luster and locality.
Colors: colorless, white, pale green or yellow
Hardness: 5.5 to 6
Mimetite
Luster is resinous to adamantine.Transparency: Crystals are transparent to translucent.
Crystal System is hexagonal; 6/m
Crystal Habits include the barrel shaped hexagonal prism with the hexagonal pyramid and/or a pinacoid as a termination.
More commonly found as classic botryoidal crusts, sparkling aggregations that resemble cauliflower, small attached spherical masses or as minute spike-like crystals.
Cleavage is rarely noticed.
Fracture is subconchoidal.
Specific Gravity is approximately 7.1+ (very heavy for translucent minerals)
Streak is off white.
Associated Minerals are wulfenite, limonite, calcite, barite, galena and secondary lead deposit minerals.
Other Characteristics: Index of refraction is 2.13 (typically high for lead minerals) and crystal terminations can be hollowed out or pitted.
Notable Occurrences include Mapimi, Mexico; Arizona, USA and Tsumeb, Africa.
Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, high luster, color, and density.
Colors: typically yellow, orange or brown, less commonly green, colorless or gray
Hardness: 3.5 to 4
Minium
Luster is greasy to adamantine.Transparency: Crystals are opaque.
Crystal System is tetragonal; bar 4 2 m
Crystal Habits include scaly aggregates and powdery coatings on other lead minerals.
Also massive and granular.
Crystals are generally well striated.
Cleavage is perfect in several directions.
Fracture is uneven.
Specific Gravity is 8.9 - 9.2 (Well above average for any mineral).
Streak is orange yellow.
Other Characteristics: Some specimens fluoresce an orange color under ultraviolet light.
Associated Minerals include massicot, galena, wulfenite, pyromorphite, mimetite, bindheimite, cerussite, lead, duftite and sphalerite.
Notable Occurrences include its name originator, the Minius River in Northwest Spain as well as Inyo County, California; several localities in Arizona; Leadville, Colorado and at the Jay Gould Mine, Idaho, USA; Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; Altai Mountains, Russia; Eifel region of Germany and at Lavrion, Greece.
Best Field Indicators are color, crystal habit, streak, density and softness.
Colors: red, scarlet to brick-red
Hardness: 2.5 to 3
Mixite
Luster is vitreous or silky to dull.Transparency: Crystals are transparent to translucent.
Crystal System is hexagonal.
Crystal Habits include radiating clusters, tufts or spherules of acicular or fibrous crystals, also massive, capillary and earthy.
Cleavage not noticeable.
Fracture is fibrous.
Specific Gravity is approximately 3.8 - 4.0 (above average for translucent minerals).
Streak is light green.
Associated Minerals are pharmacosiderite, zeunerite, emplectite, limonite, malachite, wulfenite, mimetite and barite.
Notable Occurrences include Germany; El Carmen Mine, Durango, Mexico; France; Jachymov of the former Czechoslovakia; Inyo County, California and Gila and Pinal Counties in Arizona, USA.
Best Field Indicators are color, crystal habit, density and associations with bismuth ores.
Colors: green, emerald-green, blue-green, yellow-green or off-white
Hardness: 3 to 4
Moldavite
Transformation.This stone has a very strong energy, may not always be a comfortable energy.
Moldavite strips away the things in your life that you no longer need.
Moldavite is a tektite and is the only "extraterrestrial" gemstone, which is found only in the Moldau Valley in Czechoslovakia.
Lately there have been other green tektites or imitations that are called "moldavite," but only the Czech moldavite is the "real thing."
It is associated with the heart and third eye (brow) chakras, as well as the crown chakra.
Moldavite is also associated with the Star card of the Tarot.
It strengthens and enhances inner journeys, channeling, cosmic consciousness, crystal consciousness, expansion, contact with interdimensional or extraterrestrial forces.
It is a powerful stone, and its energies can at first be intimidating for those that are not aware of its energy, and tends to bring issues to the surface to be transformed, thus making it called "stone of transformation."
When wearing moldavite, it is best to be mentally prepared and be properly grounded.
Moldavite diminishes contracting or withdrawing energies.
Moldavite in any form increases the depth and clarity of inner journeys.
Moldavite has been said to raise the vibrational level of both the human race and the Earth.
Physically, moldavite works excellently with other crystals and stones to raise the vibrational level of all healing, and also heals hair loss, fertility issues, and promoting new cell growth.
Luster is vitreous to dull.
Transparency: Gemmy tektites are transparent to translucent, but most are nearly opaque.
Crystal System does not apply because tektites are amorphous.
Habits are usually small nodules or splinters that vary from simple rounded shapes to very intricate natural carvings.
Many have smooth, scarred, or pitted surfaces.
cleavage is absent.
Specific Gravity is approximately 2.5 (somewhat light).
Streak is white.
Other Characteristics: Can sometimes be directly associated with meteorite impact craters.
Notable Occurrences include Moldavia region of Eastern Europe; Thailand and southeast Asia; Australia and Georgia, USA.
Best Field Indicators are color, odd shapes, localities and lack of cleavage or crystal faces
Colors: black, green or colorless
Hardness: 5 to 6
Molybdenite
Soft, metallic and opaque with a blue-gray streak.Helps us tap subconscious knowledge.
Teaches to face our hidden self.
Helps us to develop our character.
Luster is metallic.
Transparency crystals are opaque.
Crystal System is hexagonal; 6/m2/m2/m
Crystal Habits: thin, platy hexagonal crystals terminated by pinacoidal faces, also as tapering six-sided pyramids that can be truncated by the pinacoids.
Also massive, lamellar and in small grains in sulfide ore bodies and recrystallized marbles.
Cleavage is perfect in one direction, forming thin sheets.
Fracture is flaky.
Specific Gravity is 4.7 to 4.8 (average for metallic minerals)
Streak is bluish gray.
Associated Minerals include pyrite, wolframite, chalcopyrite, quartz, fluorite, and scheelite.
Other Characteristics: thin cleavage sheets and crystals are flexible, but not elastic. It has a greasy feel and leaves marks on fingers.
Notable Occurrences Climax, Colorado; Cornwall, England, Raade, Norway; Wilberforce, Ontario and many other Canadian localities.
Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, softness, cleavage, density, bluish streak and color.
Colors: silver metallic with a bluish cast
Hardness: 1.5 to 2
Montebrasite
Luster is vitreous to greasy and pearly on cleavage surfaces.Transparency: Specimens are translucent to less commonly transparent.
Crystal System is triclinic, bar 1.
Crystal Habits include short prismatic, tabular or equant crystals referred to as lath-shaped, but more commonly found as anhedral masses and compact grains.
Twinning forms elongated, flatten crystals.
Lamellar twinning is sometimes seen.
Cleavage is in four directions all with varying quality with one direction being perfect, two directions being good and one direction being only distinct.
All cleavage angles are non-right angles.
Fracture is uneven to conchoidal.
Specific Gravity is approximately 2.98 - 3.10 (slightly above average).
Streak is white.
Other Characteristics: When powdered and placed in a gas flame, it gives the flame a bright red color and this indicates the presence of lithium. Some specimens are fluorescent orange in long-wave UV light.
Associated Minerals include lepidolite, quartz, albite, elbaite, apatite, brazilianite, beryllonite, amblygonite, triphylite, lithiophilite and spodumene
Notable Occurrences are Montebras, France; Maricopa and Yavapai Counties, Arizona, USA and other localities where amblygonite is found.
Best Field Indicators are density, associations, environment, lithium flame test and especially the numerous cleavage angles.
Colors: generally white or creamy, but can also be colorless or pale yellow, green, blue, beige, gray or pink
Hardness: 5.5 to 6
Mookaite (Jasper)
Mookaite is a stone of the "here and now."It can help one balance the internal and external and acceptance of change.
It helps with living meditation.
Mookaite is a very protective stone, and is particularly good as an emotional protector.
In the physical realm, it stabilizes health and fortifies the immune system.
Mookaite is associated with the lower chakras.
Moonstone
Moonstone is a feldspar that is associated with the Moon.It is protective and should be carried when away from home.
If you are on a diet, wear a charged moon stone and reprogram your eating habits.
This phenomenal gemstone is the precious stone of India.
The name Moonstone comes from the mysterious sheen which is similar to 'moonlight'.
The most common colors of this gemstone are cream, pearly gray, white, peach and colorless.
There is also a beautiful variety called "rainbow moonstone."
Moonstone is a meditation stone which stimulates knowing, understanding, and appreciation.
It also brings to us self awareness and allows us to grow while learning balance.
Use Moonstone for problem solving and decision making.
Colors: (white) eggshell-colored, yellowish, bluish, gray
Hardness: 6 to 6.5
Moqui Marbles
Moqui balls can be used to enlighten the energy centers, to relieve energy blocks, to stimulate the chi, to ground and center and to provide protection.Grinding two Moqui balls together promotes receptivity to frequencies which are usually inaudible.
Morganite (Beryl)
Morganite is known both as an angel stone and a heart stone.It can bring love to one's life or rekindle an old flame.
Morganite also brings compassion, empathy, self-control, and patience to its users and wearers.
It can also balance emotions and ease the pain of separation.
It has been said to be one of the highest frequency stones available.
Physically, morganite is used for healing emphysema, tuberculosis, heart disease, breathing problems, and throat problems.
Morganite is associated primarily with the heart chakra, and can open, balance and clear this chakra.
Colors: various shades of pink
Hardness: 7.5 to 8
Moss Agate
Moss agate is sometimes called the "gardener's stone" due to its properties of helping ensure a full crop.
In addition to a full crop, moss agate brings general abundance, success, and prosperity.
It can also help one gain peace with extreme or excessive duties in life and brings self-confidence and higher self-esteem.
Moss agate is also a protective stone, as are all agates.
It can reduce the difficulties associated with overcoming addictive behaviors.
Moss agate is associated with the heart chakra, and is a stone of compatibility and friendship.
It is also believed to help improve circulation, enhance healing of all types, overcome digestive or intestinal disorders.
Green moss agate is said to assist in finding hidden treasure, and is a stone of prosperity.
Colors: milky white to red clear agate with mossy green inclusions
Hardness: 6.5 to 7
Mother-of-Pearl
This "stone" is lustrous and opalescent. It is the product of living creatures (exterior skeleton of sea mollusks). Mother of Pearl gets its name from the fact that it is the iridescent lining of a shell, where pearls can grow.Mother of Pearl attracts prosperity.
It is used in mystical work to heighten intuition, psychic sensitivity, and imagination.
It protects from negative influence, and transmutes negative energy. It is highly protective.
A traditional use of Mother of Pearl is to purify environments.
Mother-of-Pearl
This "stone" is lustrous and opalescent. It is the product of living creatures (exterior skeleton of sea mollusks). Mother of Pearl gets its name from the fact that it is the iridescent lining of a shell, where pearls can grow.Mother of Pearl attracts prosperity.
It is used in mystical work to heighten intuition, psychic sensitivity, and imagination.
It protects from negative influence, and transmutes negative energy.
It is highly protective.
A traditional use of Mother of Pearl is to purify environments.
Mottramite
Luster is resinous.Transparency: Crystals are transparent to opaque.
Crystal System is orthorhombic; 2/m2/m2/m
Crystal Habits are typically tiny druzy crusts, radiating and stalactitic masses.
Cleavage is none.
Fracture is conchoidal to uneven.
Specific Gravity is approximately 5.7 - 6 (very heavy for translucent minerals)
Streak is green.
Associated Minerals are descloizite, malachite and other secondary ore minerals.
Notable Occurrences include Pinal County, Arizona, USA; Chile; England; Bolivia and elsewhere.
Best Field Indicators are color, crystal habit, locallities and density.
Colors: typically various shades of green, and rarely found in black
Hardness: 3 to 3.5
Muscovite (Mica)
Muscovite is a type of mica that comes in pinks, browns, clear, and yellows.It is a stone of angelic contact, and can bring awareness of the higher self.
Mystically it is used in scrying and can contact the highest spiritual planes, as well as assist with astral travel.
Muscovite is also good for lessening insecurities, self-doubt, and brings self-confidence and optimism.
It is considered good for problem-solving, self-reflection, and dealing with major life changes.
Physically, muscovite is used in crystal healing to balance the pancreas, control blood sugar, heal dehydration, kidneys, hunger pants while fasting for medical or spiritual purposes, insomnia, allergies, disease-related conditions.
Luster is vitreous to pearly.
Transparency crystals are transparent to translucent.
Crystal System is monoclinic; 2/m
Crystal Habits include tabular crystals with a prominant pinacoid termination.
Muscovites four prism faces form diamond shaped "books" and if modified by another pinacoid they form pseudo-hexagonal crystal "books". The sides of the crystal often tend to tapper.
Also as lamellar rock forming masses and small flakes in detrital material.
Twinned crystals can form flat five pointed stars.
Cleavage is perfect in one direction producing thin sheets or flakes.
Fracture is not readily observed due to cleavage but is uneven.
Specific Gravity is approximately 2.8 (average)
Streak is white.
Associated Minerals are quartz, feldspars, beryl and tourmalines.
Other Characteristics: cleavage sheets are flexible and elastic, meaning they can be bent and will flex back to original shape.
Notable Occurrences include India, Pakistan, Brazil and many USA localities.
Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, cleavage, elastic sheets, color and associations.
Colors: white, silver, yellow, green and brown
Hardness: 2 to 2.5
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