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2. Spatika Lingam - Wikipedia

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   There are many different varieties of sphatikam. High quality quartz crystals are single-crystal silica with optical or electronic properties that make them suitable for hardstone carvings. The Hindu temples in South India use this semi-precious mineral for making Shiva Lingams.

3. 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 ...

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. Sperrylite - Wikipedia

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   Sperrylite on chalcopyrite with magnetite, Oktyabersky Mine, Norilsk.Field of view 2.2 cm. Sperrylite is a platinum arsenide mineral with the chemical formula PtAs 2 and is an opaque metallic tin white mineral which crystallizes in the isometric system with the pyrite group structure.

6. Proustite - Wikipedia

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   The prismatic crystals are often terminated by the scalenohedron and the obtuse rhombohedron, thus resembling calcite (dog-tooth-spar) in habit. The color is scarlet - vermilion and the luster adamantine ; crystals are transparent and very brilliant, but on exposure to light they soon become dull black and opaque .

7. Shungite - Wikipedia

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   Shungite is most widely known for crystal healing and medical claims about its uses in medicine and technology, where it is claimed to have properties ranging from health benefits to protection from EMF (electromagnetic frequencies).