EUDIALITE
- Eudialyte is a really unusual material. It was discovered first in the
Julianehaab district of Greenland in 1819, but now the most part of
eudialyte on the market comes from the Kola Peninsula in the
northern part of Russia, the region that has produced over three
hundred different mineral species and is the type locality for over a
hundred minerals. The other locations where eudialyte is found
include Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada, Kangerdluarsuk ,
Greenland; the Langesundfjord region of Norway; Madagascar and
Magnet Cove, Arkansas, USA.
- The best samples of eudialyte have large semi-transparent crystals
of deep red color embedded in matrix of black, gray and white.
Eudialyte is actually composed of several minerals: Sodium,
Calcium, Cerium, Iron, Manganese, Zirconium, Silicon, Hydrogen
and Chlorine [ Na4(Ca,Ce,Fe, Mn)2ZrSi6O17(OH, Cl)2 ]. It ranks 5 to
5.5 on the Moh’s Scale of Hardness with a Specific Gravity of 2.9.
- Eudialyte is a stone of the heart! It brings harmony into the heart
matters, and dispells jealousy. As eudialyte combines pink and red,
it also brings the root and heart chakras into alignment, as well as
activating the heart chakra. Emotionally it is helpful for learning to
trust oneself and others.
- DO YOU KNOW THAT: Mineralogists at the Canadian Museum of
Nature and the University of Copenhagen found out that as many as
46 different chemical elements could be part of eudialyte’s crystal
structure. Eudialyte’s unusually complex structure includes many
places where rare elements might be incorporated. Understanding
that structure might make the refining of zirconium and other rare
elements more practical. As a result of this study, several new
varieties of eudialyte have been discovered.
