Precious and semi-precious purple minerals

In psychology, the color purple and its shades are symbols of innovation, receptivity, mystery, endurance, and perseverance.

There are few purple-colored crystals, which is why they are especially valued by jewelers.

How are purple stones valued?

The color is obtained by mixing red and blue. Different proportions create a variety of shades of purple. Among esotericists, blue is considered the embodiment of the masculine essence, and red – the feminine essence. Therefore, violet balances the psyche.

Psychologists have established the meaning of the color purple:

• even raises negative self-esteem;
• neutralizes difficult memories;
• activates creativity;
• makes you purposeful, aims to achieve results;
• helps to overcome everyday difficulties.

Wearing accessories with purple stones adds calmness and prudence. The stone heals the psyche and relieves depression.

Creative individuals will realize their wildest ideas with them, risky people will be more judicious. Romantics will become even more romantic, and those who are overly emotional will become calmer.

Mages use purple stones in rituals to expel dark entities.

However, adherence to too thick violet distinguishes people who are impulsive and easily suggestible. They are tense in company, although they are prone to fantasy and extravagance.

Ametrine deposits

The main source of high-quality raw materials is the Anahi mine (Bolivia, Central America). Local stones are beautiful and do not need processing. It is no coincidence that the second name of the mineral is bolivianite. It is the most expensive of the ametrines.

Ametrine mining

Deposits in Brazil and Siberia account for the remaining 10%, but the quality is worse. Ametrine from Brazil is not so bright, and Siberian samples are golden-smoky.

Amethysts and citrines are mined all over the world, however, ametrine has not been found anywhere else.

Assortment of minerals

Stones or varieties of purple appear in all jewelry categories. Almost all types of purple stones are endowed with a rich range of colors.

Purple Gems

The names of purple stones are counted in units.

Amethyst

The most beautiful variety of quartz. Purple semi-precious stone - amethyst classic. The name is translated from ancient Greek as “not drunk.” Residents of Ancient Greece and Rome did not come to feasts without a ring with this mineral, so as not to get drunk and disgrace themselves.

Amethyst

Unlike other minerals, translucent amethyst specimens are more valuable than transparent ones.

Ametrine

The name “amethrine” is the result of a merger of the words “amethyst” and “citrine”. Both gemstones are not uncommon, but the areas that combine soft purple and yellow-peach hue are unique. They are manually cut out from the common agglomerate.

Gold ring with Ametrine

The second name of ametrine - bolivianite - is associated with a beautiful and sad legend.

The leader of the conquistadors, Don Felipe, fell in love with the daughter of the leader of a local tribe. However, the parents were against it, and the tribesmen killed the princess for her connection with the invader. Before her death, she gave him a two-color pebble - a symbol of a heart divided between her beloved and her native country.

The semi-precious stone is also mined in neighboring Brazil, but jewelers are chasing deep lilac Bolivian stones.

Charoite

According to the jewelry classification, an opaque mineral with veins is an ornamental stone. The color range is from light lilac to blue-violet. Valued for its decorative characteristics. Discovered in the only place on the planet - the basin of the Siberian Chara River.

Charoite jewelry

There are several varieties of purple mineral: extra, first and second grade. The extras are taken by jewelers, the rest by stone cutters and decorators.

Kunzite

Named in honor of D. Kunz, an American mineralogist who described the semi-precious mineral a hundred years ago. The amount of manganese determines what color the color will be. Shades from light pink to dark lilac change under different lighting conditions.

Kunzite

The stone is found on the American continent (Brazil, USA). Jewelers from the USA take almost everything.

Sugilite

A mineral of unusual red-violet color was discovered in the 1940s by Kenichi Sugi in his native Japanese archipelago. After 40 years, American jewelers appreciated it.

Sugilite

Production is established in South Africa, Australia, Europe (Italy), Asia (Tajikistan). However, the reserves are small and are being rapidly depleted. Therefore, sugilite jewelry or stone is a good investment. A particularly delicate purple specimen with little spotting: its price is the highest.

Tanzanite

The mineral is named after the deposit where it was discovered in 1967 and mined - the state of Tanzania in Africa, in the vicinity of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Purple tanzanite

The purple stone launched the Tiffany jewelry brand.

Formally classified as semi-precious, tanzanite rivals diamonds in value. After all, there is only one deposit on the planet; the reserves will last for a maximum of a decade.

Every dark purple stone is registered and in the sight of collectors.

Technologists have created a synthetic analogue, but it is easy to identify. Tanzanite is a stone that changes color at different angles; it is not an artificial mineral.

Taffeite

Named after the geologist Taafe, who noticed a gem that was different from the known purple ones. The palette ranges from pale pinkish to lilac-violet. The rarest and most expensive is a transparent deep lilac stone from Sri Lanka.

Taffeite

Purpurite

Semi-precious jewelry mineral from the phosphate group. Named by color - from lilac to red violet. Found in granite pegmatites of Europe, USA, Australia, and southern Africa.

Purpurite

Purple varieties

The list of names is small, but includes minerals of all jewelry levels.

Sapphire

Along with cornflower blue, the blue-violet variety is the most valuable. Purple gemstone is also known as oriental amethyst. Mined in India and Sri Lanka.

Multi-colored sapphires

According to the Bible, the tablets received by Moses are inscribed on bluish-violet sapphires.

Almandine

This purple transparent variety of garnet is surrounded by legends and stories. The pebbles served as the eyes of the sea monster. The half-woman, half-snake laid them out on the shore, luring travelers. He illuminated the way for Noah's ark.

Almandine stone

It is mined in Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Australia and Finland.

Apatite

A mineral from the phosphate group with colors ranging from grayish to black-red-violet. They are determined by impurities. The largest deposit in Russia (Kola Peninsula). The mineral is fragile, so it is suitable for products with minimal loads (beads, pendants, pendants, earrings). Good in silver or cupronickel.

Apatite

Jade

Purple or lilac are the rarest varieties of jadeite. In everyday life they are known as lavender. They are mined in Kazakhstan and Russia (Ural). Durable, used by jewelers, stone cutters, and decorators.

Jade

Fluorite

The mineral has a rich palette: the color of the crystals is white, yellow, black, green, red. But the deep pink, green or blue-violet varieties with sparkles are considered the most beautiful. Transparent or translucent specimens imitate amethyst and are therefore in demand by jewelers. Although the low hardness of the stone (only 4 according to Mohs) plus fragility limit the imagination of designers.

Fluorite

Spinel

Instances of a rich red-violet hue are among the most expensive varieties of spinel. Only jewelers use them. Sometimes this spinel is called almandine. Production is established in Southeast Asia, Australia, and Madagascar.

Topaz

The purple variety is rare and highly prized. The stone is mined in Brazil and Russia. Among the Ural gems, wine yellow and violet are the most valuable.

Pendant with topaz

Homemade flints

Some lilac solids are used not only in jewelry. Of these, solid bodies, household items, and paint structures are used. More often than not, such flints turn out to be impenetrable and less recognized. But among them there are precious flints, which in terms of elegance and price are in no way comparable to the most valuable solids.

Charoite

The traditional sample is a solid. Available only in Siberia. The name originated with the Chara River. Both light violet and thus dark violet samples are observed. A solid body is impenetrable.

Lepidolite

Mica, a layered, colorless solid with little durability: 2.5 Mohs rating. Wide natural accumulations are available in Canada, Manitoba, Brazil, Zimbabwe, the Russian Federation and other countries. Unique alloys are obtained from lepidolite: cesium and rubidium.

Often only half of the flint is lilac. The edges have a variety of palettes: from white to red, less often yellow and gray.

Jade

Another unique “universal” granite with a lilac tint is jadeite (lavender). This mineral has high hardness. It is used as an ornamental material, but there are also expensive samples

Jewelers prefer soft, colorless lilac-colored samples: prices start at $100 per carat.

The broken solid body turns to costume jewelry. Medium quality and opaque - suitable for cheap jewelry. Products are made from it: figures, writing accessories and much more.

Jadeite of this tone was adored by the Aztec-Mayans. In Europe it turned out to be the same after the creation of America. There are many such solid bodies in the Urals.

Features of the use of minerals

Jewelry with purple stones is suitable for men and women aged 35+. They make the image solid and extravagant at the same time.

Almost all natural purple minerals are fragile.

You need to take care of jewelry with such gems:

• they are protected from perfumes, cosmetics, and household chemicals;
• stored separately from others;
• wash only with soap and water.

Almost all purple or pinkish-violet stones (especially kunzite) fade or fade in the sun. Therefore, jewelry should not be worn to the beach or pool.

Compatible with other minerals in rings, bracelets, earrings and other jewelry

Existing purple gems belong to the group of active stones. It is not recommended to combine minerals with each other. There should be one type of stone per image.

Other gems that are combined with purple are turquoise , lapis lazuli , rock crystal , and diamonds . Choose minerals of corresponding brightness yellow, deep pink, bluish-green shades. Avoid light matte colors - next to deep purple, only the same active or shiny, iridescent colors will remain noticeable.

Magic properties

The color purple has a special place among the esoteric community. First of all, we are attracted by its strong energy, which combines the magical capabilities of two colors.

Overall Impact

Magicians, mystics and their colleagues use stones as a channel of communication with other worlds and as a “battery” in energy-intensive rituals.

Other properties of violet minerals have also been revealed:

• help preserve the family idyll;
• encourage you to broaden your horizons and gain knowledge;
• enhance intuition.

Purple stones are suitable as a talisman for people in dangerous professions or those who have discovered the makings of a psychic.

Effect of purple minerals

Each purple stone has its own influence on a person:

• A spinel talisman (especially a gold ring on the left hand) will attract personal happiness to the owner.
• Charoite will protect from external negativity and activate the creative spirit. Useful for those who cannot sleep or sleep restlessly.
• Almandine protects from injury and pacifies passions. This is a symbol of love, hope, giving strength and confidence in a favorable outcome, giving strength.
• Amethyst protects against intoxication, temptation, black magic and poisons. Helps control the situation; a ring with it is given to newly appointed bishops.
• Shamans and magicians use ametrine to reconcile enemies, control the elements, summon spirits and prophetic dreams.
• A jadeite signet ring helps to sign super contracts and “dictates” the right decision in difficult situations. An ally only in matters with a plus sign.
• The apatite talisman sharpens intuition and evokes prophetic dreams. Warns of danger (the skin under the pebble turns red). It becomes attached to the owner, and after a long “separation” it loses its magical properties. Useless in black magic.
• Kunzite almost instantly adapts to the owner. Harmonizes character, activates creativity, teaches you to enjoy life again. Yoga adherents choose it for meditation.
• Purpurite is salvation for those who have lost confidence in themselves.
• Purple-blue sapphire in jewelry helps to achieve success in all areas. The woman will become wiser and happier personally, the man will become more reasonable and chaste.
• Sugilite chooses his own owner, “attracting” the gaze of the future owner at the first meeting.
• Tanzanite is recommended for those who want to get fabulously rich or improve their personal life. But he is not an ally to liars and hypocrites.
• A ring or brooch with fluorite makes you smarter and luckier in love.

Only intact natural stones are suitable as a magical talisman.

Price

Ametrine is a semi-precious stone, but expensive. On the world market, a carat of high-quality Bolivian stone costs $100 or more .

The explored reserves of ametrine will last for 20–30 years , so its value will increase.

Examples of prices in Russian online stores:

• cabochon (31 x 23 x 9 mm) - 490 rub. ;
• faceted beads (10 mm, 40 pieces) - RUB 1,140. ;
• earrings (silver) - RUB 1,370. ;
• tumbling beads (45 cm) - RUB 1,780. ;
• ametrine (4–6 cm, 50–70 g) — RUB 3,760. ;
• pendant (14k red gold) — 8,900 rub. ;
• ring (14k red gold) — RUB 15,890.

Therapeutic effect

The energy of purple stones heals the nervous system, treats headaches including migraines, and eliminates skin problems.

Each purple pebble helps in its own way:

• Purple spinel powder activates blood circulation, eliminates skin and joint problems.
• Charoite is recommended for anyone who sits at the computer for days or suffers from chronic diseases. It crushes kidney stones, heals fractures, and treats migraines.
• Almandine neutralizes pain, heals wounds, and accelerates bone healing. It is recommended to wear gold earrings with it for chronic diseases, sluggish blood circulation and metabolism, and weak immunity. Feeds with sexual energy.
• Wearing ametrine is indicated for neurotic, hot-tempered, angry people.
• Water infused with apatite improves digestion.
• Hot jadeite heals and rejuvenates the body as a whole. Demanded in saunas and baths.
• Kunzite is used to support the heart, strengthen blood vessels, cure acute respiratory infections, relieve headaches, and strengthen the immune system.
• Purpurite heals wounds, treats the cardiovascular system and blood.
• The mission of tanzanite is to relieve eye strain and anxiety; treat colds and skin ailments (bracelet).
• Migraines are eliminated by a pendant with fluorite.

Sapphire has a complex effect. It enhances the effect of traditional medicines taken by humans. This is a powerful remedy for the treatment of the heart, blood vessels, asthma, and gynecology. Breaks up kidney stones, eliminates eczema and headaches. Strengthens the effect of traditional drugs.

Purple Stones and the Zodiac

From the assortment of purple stones, each zodiac sign can choose its own option:

• charoite – Libra, Cancer, Gemini;
• spinel - Libra, Taurus, Pisces, Gemini, Capricorn, Virgo; not suitable for Aquarius, Scorpio, Cancer;
• apatite is zodiac compatible with everyone except Pisces;
• jadeite is suitable for Virgo, Pisces, Libra; Contraindicated for Scorpios and Cancers;
• Purpurite is intended for Virgos and Cancers; helps all people with low self-esteem;
• fluorite – helper of Gemini;
• sapphire is better suited for Sagittarius, Gemini, Pisces; good for Leo, Taurus, Aries, Aquarius; contraindicated for Capricorns;
• Tanzanite patronizes Aquarius and Capricorn.

Kunzite is favorable to everyone who has bright thoughts.

Unique charoite

Semi-precious lilac mineral with a unique, unusual pattern. The crystal is mined in one and only place - in Russia, more precisely, in the Irkutsk region. No more deposits have been found containing deposits of the mineral or its elements.

Charoite has a pearlescent luster. The variety of veins of different purple shades does not allow creating a copy of a natural mineral.

There are several varieties of charoite. In jewelry, a transparent mineral without foreign inclusions is used. Such stones have a particularly clear pattern. They are used to make everyday jewelry at a relatively low price. The mineral with foreign impurities is used in the production of souvenirs. Purple stones, called charoitite, are used as a facing material. This is the cheapest type of mineral.

The stone symbolizes wisdom and balance. Talismans with charoite bestow prudence and peace of mind. They are able to develop intuition and protect against loneliness. Since ancient times, it was believed that for harmony in the family, newly-made spouses should be given figurines made of this mineral. Charms containing charoite are called keepers of peace.

Charoite favors creative people and is suitable for poets and artists. In addition, it is often called the stone of intelligence.

Like all purple crystals, charoite can calm the nervous system and protect against stress. It is often used to treat diseases of the musculoskeletal system and fractures. This is one of the few minerals that has an analgesic effect. It is enough to apply a stone to the damaged area, and the pain will subside.

The gem is suitable for Libra, Aries, Virgo and Gemini. But it is not recommended for Taurus, Cancer and Sagittarius.

Why do you dream of purple stones?

It is believed that purple stones dream of extraordinary, expressive or eccentric people.

General interpretation

Dreams with purple stones are interpreted in different ways:

• if you dreamed of purple stones - mental disorder or other similar problems are on the horizon, it makes sense to consult a psychologist (especially if the jewelry is on you or in your hands, or it is costume jewelry);
• strong resentment from blatant injustice;
• peace of mind, satisfaction with your life;
• forced long separation from a loved one (but during this time love will grow stronger);
• You need to pay attention to finances, but do not rush into a final decision.

If you found a precious purple stone in a dream, expect health and solutions to problems in reality.

According to the dream books of Vanga and Tsvetkov, these are difficulties in business; according to Freud, this is an overestimation of oneself (for men) and a hint of passivity in the intimate sphere (for women).

Physico-chemical characteristics

The composition of the mineral ametrine is silicon oxide, a transparent polychrome variety of quartz.

Other characteristics of the stone:

• chemical formula – SiO2;
• color – violet-purple, with lilac or yellowish tint;
• hardness on the Mohs scale – 7;
• density – 2.60 g/cm3;
• luster – glassy.

Other names of the stone that emphasize its origin are amethyst-citrine, bicolor amethyst, bolivianite.

In ametrine crystals, the color is distributed chaotically: it is zoning with alternating violet-lilac (amethyst) and yellow (citrine) segments or pyramidal with increasing edges.

The amount and ratio of impurities creates different colors of ametrine: thick violet, lilac, lilac in a duet with orange or yellow.