Chalcedony Specimen

This white and red chalcedony cluster is fascinating in have a really rough looking on the outer. And then it has some interesting inclusions. It’s from Agate Creek, Queensland. Here is the video.

This crystal is great for the throat chakra and physical throat health. Said to strengthen your vocal cords and to help prevent or heal vocal strain. This includes using it for soothing sore throats and throat infections. After cooling anger and frustration, it brings in optimistic feelings of life. Use it to help your mind be mentally flexible, so you can react more easily to change.

We are now almost out of all other specimens, but we have it in its white form as animals, bracelets and pendants.

I look forward to seeing if this completely natural blue chalcedony cluster specimen goes to a geological collector or a person wanting energy help.

Weight	421 g
Dimensions	115 × 75 × 63 mm
Colour	Red, White / Cream
Country Crystal Grew	Australia
Size	Medium

Healing Properties

Benefits of Chalcedony

Nurture, Enthusiasm, Harmony

• Nurturing stone yet powerful cleanser
• Promoting brotherhood and goodwill and instills feelings of benevolence and generosity.
• Enhance group stability.
• Can assist thought transmission and telepathy.
• Absorbs negativity in thought, emotion and bad dreams and dissipates so it isn't transmitted on.
• Brings mind, body, emotions and spirit into harmony.
• Eases self-doubt and facilitates constructive inward reflection.
• Creates an open and enthusiastic persona.
• Said to improve mineral assimilation, foster maternal instinct to increase lactation.

Additional Properties of Colours

Blue

• Enhances creativity.
• Opens mind to assimilate new ideas and accept new situations creating optimism.
• Imparts mental flexibility and verbal dexterity.
• Enhances listening and communication skills including learning new languages and improves memory.
• Said to ameliorate dis-eases related to weather sensitivity and pressure, enhances immune system and is anti inflammatory/
• Also said to help lungs recovering from smoking.

Geological Information

Geological Information of Chalcedony

• Members of Chalcedony:  agate, jasper, chert, chrysoprase, onyx, pietersite, aventurine, mtorolite, etc.

General Identification

• Type: Mineral
• Class: Oxides, Silicates
• Member of Group: Quartz
• Formula: SiO₂
• Mohs Hardness: 6 - 7
• Formula: cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and morganite (another polymorph of quartz)
• Crystal System:
• Crystal Habit:
• Lustre / Diaphaneity: Translucent, Waxy, vitreous, dull, greasy, silky
• Colour: various

Special Notes

The structure of chalcedony is classified as microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline, meaning that the crystalline structure of the rock is so fine that it is not readily visible to the naked eye. In order to identify the individual crystals which make up the stone, it must be sliced into thin sections and viewed under a microscope with a polarized light source. Even then, the crystals are usually quite difficult to distinguish. This makes the stone relatively durable and easy to work with, far less prone to fracturing that other forms of quartz or minerals with larger crystal structures.

• Ancient times used to create chalices to prevent poisoning.
• Small dyed "agate" geodes are also known as chalcedony geodes
• Petrified wood is usually chalcedony replacing wood.
• If the chalcedony grows as points it's a quartz. If its boulder-style then agate. If a shimmering mass, then aventurine.
• Lumps that are a single translucent colour or have a druzy layer of crystals are called in metaphysical terms: chalcedony,. Banded or swirls/patterns of colours - agate.
• Chalcedony is more soluble than quartz under low-temperature conditions
• Read more on the geological information.