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2. Gemstone Meanings: Power and Significance of the 25 Most ...

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   Citrine “A powerful gemstone crystal in a range of deep yellows, oranges, and yellow-cream-white, the citrine gemstone is said to bring abundance and wealth into one’s life,” Salzer says.

3. Belomorite - Wikipedia

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   Belomorite is a spectacular and popular jewelry and ornamental material, one of the varieties of moonstone. However, due to its fragility and perfect cleavage, the mineral often breaks and is difficult to process, so it is cut in the form of simple cabochons (oval, round, teardrop-shaped), as well as balls or polished plates.

4. Lapidary medicine - Wikipedia

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   Lapidary medicine is a pseudoscientific concept based on the belief that gemstones have healing properties. The source of the idea of lapidary medicine stems from information found in lapidaries , books giving "information about the properties and virtues of precious and semi-precious stones."

5. Crystal healing - Wikipedia

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   Crystal healing is a pseudoscientific alternative-medicine practice that uses semiprecious stones and crystals such as quartz, agate, amethyst or opal. Despite the common use of the term "crystal", many popular stones used in crystal healing, such as obsidian, are not technically crystals. Adherents of the practice claim that these have healing ...

6. Lapidary (text) - Wikipedia

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   Lapidaries portrayed "the most common method of medical application" being wearing the stone on one's person in a jewelry setting, for example, in a ring or a necklace or held the stone against the skin. Allowing direct contact between the gem and the skin was encouraged to facilitate the transfer of healing properties. [19]

7. Moonstone (gemstone) - Wikipedia

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   Moonstone cabochon. The most common moonstone is of the orthoclase feldspar mineral adularia, named for an early mining site near Mt. Adular in Switzerland, now the town of St. Gotthard. [1] [better source needed] A solid solution of the plagioclase feldspar oligoclase +/− the potassium feldspar orthoclase also produces moonstone specimens.