Muscovite Specimen with Tourmaline Ruler

I bought this fascinating Muscovite Specimen which has black or green Tourmaline ruler on it for a person who never came back so here it is for you! And there maybe other crystals that I can identify … but they could just be more tourmaline. So click here to watch the video and decide for yourself.

This shows that this specimen is a mica variation as it flakes. It is an unusual green-ish, bronze-ish, silvery colour – hard to name as it varies in the light. And it’s an Australian crystal!

A muscovite crystal stimulates the mind and brain and improves agility of thought and problem solving. Said to support the body in achieving its most appropriate weight and prevents hunger when fasting.

Read about Tourmaline on the Healing Tab.

As its a combo it is great for group work. After reading the healing properties of this muscovite specimen with tourmaline ruler, I can image it helping someone work with their group consciousness and getting “re-integrated”!

Weight	200 g
Dimensions	108 × 75 × 15 mm
Colour	Brown / Tan, Green / Shamrock, Yellow / Gold
Country Crystal Grew	Australia
Size	Medium

Geological Information

Geological Information of Mica Family

• Section mainly covers: Fuchsite, Lepidolite, Muscovite
• Mica grows as sheets layered - rather like a filo pastry.

General Identification

• Type: Mineral
• Class: Silicates
• Group: Micas
• Crystal System: Monoclinic
• Formula: AB_2–3(X, Si)₄O₁₀(O, F, OH)₂
• Hardness: 2 - 3
• Luster / Diaphaneity: pearly, vitreous, transparent (thin sheets) to opaque
• Colour: purple, rosy, silver, gray, dark green, brown, black, yellowish-brown, green-white, colorless, transparent

Special Notes

• Mica is widely distributed and occurs in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary regimes.
• The earliest use of mica has been found in cave paintings created during the Upper Paleolithic period (40,000 BC to 10,000 BC).
• Powdered mica glitter is used to decorate traditional clay pots
• Sheet mica is used principally in the electronic and electrical industries. Its usefulness in these applications is derived from its unique electrical and thermal properties and its mechanical properties.
• The purple variety is coloured by lithium and is known as lepidolite.
  • Lepidolite comes in flat sheets and botryoidal sheet form
  • More geological information.
• Mid to dark green variety is called fuchsite
  • Combined with quartz creates green aventurine
  • Much which is currently available in stores is fuchsite layered into quartz and some parts are so merged they have are now green aventurine. Recently if the fuchsite is dominant they call it fuchsite aventurine.
  • More geological information: fuchsite;
• The bladed variety is called muscovite.
  • It is usually lemon green or khaki green
  • KAl₂(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂
  • More geological information: muscovite.
• A dark green- brown variety is biotite
  • K(Mg,Fe)₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(F,OH)₂
  • More geological information: biotite
• A yellow, greenish, or reddish-brown mica is called phlogopite (magnesium mica)
  • KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(F,OH)₂
  • More geological information: phlogopite

Healing Properties

Benefits of Albite (Clevelandite)

• Spiritual stone of initiation and transformation.
• Increases intuitive perception and broadens visions, horizons and life.
• Improves perception facilities at all levels.
• Great to have during profound life changes so you can move forward with balance and life affirming focus.
• Encourages wise planning.
• Release deep feelings of abandonment, rejection and betrayal so move to self-nurture.
• Said to increase physical flexibility and healthy skin.

It is often found with other crystals such as:

+ Tourmaline: dissipates grief and blocked emotions. Improves tolerance, sociability and harmony. Blocks other people’s energies. + Lepidolite: offers inner peace, protects from external influences, helps concentration, frees from distractions. + Smoky Quartz: eases tension, grounds knowledge into wisdom, enhances rational, pragmatic and realistic thought. + Citrine: increases joy of life, self-esteem, self-worth, understanding absorbed impressions and abundance.