Mineral Specimen
This Pink and Clear Tourmaline in Lepidolite, Feldspar and Quartz matrix 90*45*50mm weighs 188.7g.
Pink Tourmaline is part of the colourful Elbaite group in the Tourmaline family. Other types include Indicolite (blue to blue/green), Verdelite (green) and Watermelon (pink with green). It is commonly formed within massive Quartz. It is a different mineral to the Red Tourmaline, Rubellite.
Pink Tourmaline is a positive crystal that brings strength as it opens your Heart chakra. These energies bring you to a place of love, through conviction, courage and strength. It improves energy circulation throughout the chakras and subtle bodies. Its balancing and heart energies lend you strength and courage so that you can view your situation with proper perspective and self-compassion. This can help you to identify and break free from negative situations such as an abusive relationship or a toxic work culture. Its energies can help you deal with the aftermath and discover the emotional support you need to adjust. This is a process of unlearning past destructive patterns and old emotional wounds that prevented you from finding joy in life.
Pink Tourmaline is also excellent for connecting with the Earth on an emotional level. This connection illuminates the relation between the Earth and humanity. This can help you live in a way that promotes the health of our planet.
Colour: hot pink, pale pink, pink
Transparency: translucent, transparent
Lustre: vitreous
Crystal system: trigonal; hexagonal, prismatic
Fracture: subconchoidal, uneven
Hardness: 7–7.5
Mineral group: cyclosilicates, tourmaline group
Formula: Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH) (Elbaite)
Location: Afghanistan, Brazil, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, USA
Rarity: rarer
Chakra: Heart
Emotional: anxiety, calming, generosity, grief, joy, love, mourning, pain, passion, patience, peace, relationships, relaxation, selflessness, self-love, self-protection, trauma, trust, understanding
Mental/intellectual: courage, empathy, insight, inspiration, new beginnings, opportunities, perspective, purpose, resolution, self-discovery, strength, truth
Spiritual: clearing, compassion, growth, inner peace, love, meditation, universal love, wisdom, wholeness
Astrology: Libra; Venus
Numbers: 9, 99
Lepidolite is a Lithium-rich form of Mica. It is a stone for periods of transition as it gently stabilises emotions and soothes anxiety. Lepidolite is often used for stress relief and sleep, connecting mind and heart. It is also considered one of the best stones for emotional healing. Lepidolite has a strong relaxing, balancing and calming effect, bringing inner peace.
Lepidolite helps to reduce stress associated with change. Lepidolite brings light and hope. It helps you to get rid of mental blocks and see the reasons behind negative experiences enabling a shift in old energy patterns. Lepidolite can increase your concentration, decision-making, positivity, self-confidence and self-love to improve your situation.
Lepidolite promotes spiritual transcendence and cosmic awareness, particularly assisting during meditation and/or prayer.
Colour: greyish purple, lavender, light purple, lilac, pink
Transparency: opaque, translucent
Lustre: pearly, vitreous
Crystal system: monoclinic
Fracture: uneven
Hardness: 2.5–4
Mineral group: silicates, mica group
Formula: K(Li,Al)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(F,OH)₂
Location: Africa, Brazil, Greenland, Madagascar, Namibia, Russia, USA
Rarity: common
Chakra: Heart, Third Eye, Crown
Emotional: anxiety, balance, blockages, calming, depression, generosity, joy, love, mood swings, panic attacks, patience, peace of mind, PTSD, rage, relationships, stress, tension, transition, trauma, understanding, worry
Mental/intellectual: clarity, concentration, self-expression
Spiritual: Akashic records, balances Yin energy, cosmic awareness, cosmic consciousness, dreams, higher self, purification
Astrology: Pisces, Libra; Jupiter, Neptune
Number: 8
