Ruby Zoisite Slice

Here is natural Ruby Zoisite slice which was again another exciting one-off find and I made the attempt to polish myself (if you don’t look as closely at it as the video does). The ruby won’t polished down but the zoisite does so it gets uneven and shows some minor grind marks.

It as a leading edge of crystals which is extra unusual.  The green sparkly colour of these show the zoisite at its best. The ruby are there just small in size and real ruby – shine UV light on it.

People buy roughs who like Nature untouched or are adding them to a natural setting like in a group of plants.

Let this crystal This is an energising crystal that boosts courage and inner strength. It’s also closely associated with psychic abilities, such as astral travel and past life regression.

Enjoy this ruby zoisite slice.

Healing Properties

Benefits of Ruby and Variations

• Alternative name: Red Corundum

• Assists in reaching and utilising talents and abilities of the mind.
• Amplifies the entire energy field of the body.
• Activates crown to create altered state of consciousness - extremely helpful for soul healing.
• Promotes individuality while being inter-connected to humanity.

Additional Properties of Varieties

Ruby in Zoisite

• Amplifies the entire energy field of the body.
• Activates crown to create altered state of consciousness - extremely helpful for soul healing and past life work.
• Promotes individuality while being inter-connected to humanity so empathy exists on all level.
• Zoisite is found in found in metamorphic and pegmatitic rock. It streaks white and is said to be brittle - I found if you leave these pieces in water, the whitish mineral goes brown.

Ruby in Fuchsite

• Helps clear any blockage of the Heart Chakra and fill the void with positive, loving energies.
• Helps one to maintain an awareness of individuality, while also completely connecting with humanity as a whole.
• Transforms destructive, negative energies into positive, helpful ones.
• Opens and enhances psychic awareness when on Third-Eye (Brow) opening up the Heart Chakra to receive information from the Third-Eye Chakra.
• Thins veils to aid connecting and communicating with the spirit world and deepen meditation.
• Helps get to and stay asleep.
• Said to promote physical vitality, recovery/relief from extended or chronic illness
• Said to be strengthening the heart and blood flow/circulation issues.

Ruby in Kyanite

• As well as the qualities of Ruby (Heart) and Kyanite (Throat):
• Combination melds the heart, throat and base so that lovingly the basic difficulties and issues can be said and resolved bringing in positive energies to replace the negative.
• Synthesis between the emotional and the vocal.
• Helps ease you into meditation - balancing energy, opening heart and settling the mind.
• Kyanite helps ruby to not hold onto negative energies.
• Kyanite sweeps away and transforms negativity. Ruby helps kyanite with protection and security.
• Both help with astral travel so that you can control and remember the journey.
• Helps attune you so you can see get insight about your emotions and initiates movement of Kundalini energy.
• Said to help with muscular, throat, fever and brain issues.

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