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Lazurite is a product of contact metamorphism of limestone and is typically associated with calcite, pyrite, diopside, humite, forsterite, hauyne and muscovite. [ 2 ] Other blue minerals, such as the carbonate mineral, azurite , and the phosphate mineral, lazulite , may be confused with lazurite, but are easily distinguished with careful ...
Azure spar, sometimes azur-spar (German: Lazur spath, Blau spath) is a trivial and commercial, partly obsolete name for several of the most famous bright blue or blue-colored minerals, which also have similar names, most notably for lazurite and azurite, [1]: 14 and also for the less commonly used lazulite. [2]: 248
Lazulite or Azure spar [6]: 14 is a transparent to semi-opaque, blue mineral that is a phosphate of magnesium, iron, and aluminium, with the chemical formula (Mg,Fe 2+)Al 2 (PO 4) 2 (OH) 2. [3]
Another Sar-e Sang Lazurite crystal, with the classic deep azure-blue color. Crystal is 4.5 cm wide. Sar-i Sang (or Sar-e Sang) (lit. "stone summit" in Persian) is a settlement in the Kuran Wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, famous for its ancient lapis lazuli mines producing the world's finest lapis. [1]
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Sodalite is a member of the sodalite group with hauyne, nosean, lazurite and tugtupite. The people of the Caral culture traded for sodalite from the Collao altiplano . [ 6 ] First discovered by Europeans in 1811 in the Ilimaussaq intrusive complex in Greenland , sodalite did not become widely important as an ornamental stone until 1891 when ...
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