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In a message dated 1/6/2007 3:34:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,

reikipractice writes:

 

I dunno...It's lavender,

with a white swirl or 2 and it almost looks glittery

 

 

Try looking at a few pictures of both Lepidolite and Charoite. The swirl

makes me lean more towards the Charoite option.

 

 

 

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In a message dated 1/6/2007 10:57:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,

mauiskye1 writes:

 

Aloha Deb. . .sound like lepidolite with a high mica content. Most of the

charoite I've seen is a deeper purple and seems to have black flecks in it but

is not glittery.

 

 

Greetings Maui,

 

Lepidolite was indeed my first thought but then the " white swirl " clicked in

and made charoite pop into my head with a stronger resonance for possibly

IDing of Deb's crystal. My mentioning of Charoite was due to personal

experience with a slab that resides with my crystal family. While yes part is a

deeper

purple, it is swirled with a light lavender into white. It also has while

not actually a glittery quality but an opalescent quality to it that might

incline someone to describe it as " almost glittery " if they are not familiar

with

the word/appearance of opalescent/opalescence (reflecting an iridescent

light) quality. The piece I have is rough on the back and more of a matte

finish

on the *polished* side but it shows the opalescence on both sides. A higher

polished piece maybe would show it even more. (I don't usually shop for

charoite due to it's typically high priced nature. The piece I have just

happened

to be a good deal.

 

I love lepidolite and have quite a few pieces of it. The closest any of them

come to having white swirls is a large rough piece that is with quartz.

Although bitroydal lepidolite might be viewed as having swirls.

 

Blessings to your day all.

ReNau

 

 

 

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Aloha All. . .the pieces of lepidolite that we offer are carved into heart

shapes. A few available in the beginning did have white swirls. Many come to

our booth wanting us to identify stones that I've never seen. Stones are often

combinations of more than one mineral, as one mineral is an inclusion in another

or as one mineral formed on a matrix of another mineral. The most interesting

pieces are often combinations. We offer some beautiful acupressure wands that

display Rubelitte (tourmaline) rosettes in Fuschite that my weekend assistant

swears are Rubellite in Zoisite although our knowledgable supplier sold them to

us a in Fuschite. Some minerals are commonly found together as tourquoise and

malachite make up Chrysocolla. One local healer who with a knowledge of ancient

use of stones can usually identify anything, creates 'power' jewelry using

combinations of beads put together with intuitive guidance for that specific

person and feels that combinations enhance

and magnify the properties of stones combined. I have found penduluming to

identify not very accurate probaly because stones usually are combinations.

Guidebooks can be helpful, but as color range can be so diverse, what one has is

not often pictured. Bottom line is if it speaks to you, listen and enjoy and

when it's time to pass it along do so with love and gratitude. In Light. . Skye

/ Heart of Maui

 

renaumoon wrote:

In a message dated 1/6/2007 10:57:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,

mauiskye1 writes:

 

Aloha Deb. . .sound like lepidolite with a high mica content. Most of the

charoite I've seen is a deeper purple and seems to have black flecks in it but

is not glittery.

 

Greetings Maui,

 

Lepidolite was indeed my first thought but then the " white swirl " clicked in

and made charoite pop into my head with a stronger resonance for possibly

IDing of Deb's crystal. My mentioning of Charoite was due to personal

experience with a slab that resides with my crystal family. While yes part is a

deeper

purple, it is swirled with a light lavender into white. It also has while

not actually a glittery quality but an opalescent quality to it that might

incline someone to describe it as " almost glittery " if they are not familiar

with

the word/appearance of opalescent/opalescence (reflecting an iridescent

light) quality. The piece I have is rough on the back and more of a matte finish

on the *polished* side but it shows the opalescence on both sides. A higher

polished piece maybe would show it even more. (I don't usually shop for

charoite due to it's typically high priced nature. The piece I have just

happened

to be a good deal.

 

I love lepidolite and have quite a few pieces of it. The closest any of them

come to having white swirls is a large rough piece that is with quartz.

Although bitroydal lepidolite might be viewed as having swirls.

 

Blessings to your day all.

ReNau