The tourmaline mineral helps to clear the mind of unnecessary thoughts, anxieties and fears, as well as concentrate on solving basic problems. It reveals the creative potential of the owner. And jewelry with tourmaline has a beneficial effect on the well-being of a person, as official medicine also indicates.
Description
This is a mineral that is part of the group of boron-containing aluminosilicates. The composition of the stone is variable and complex. Its varieties include boron, silicon, aluminum, as well as elements such as calcium, magnesium, lithium, iron, sodium.
The tourmaline mineral boasts a rich color scheme. It comes in various shades, including black, brown. There is also a colorless stone called “achroit”. There are different types of this mineral. For example, rubellite is red, poisonous is brown, verdelite is green, sibirite is red-violet, indigolite is blue and blue, and sherl is black tourmaline. There are minerals painted immediately in several shades. For example, there is a “watermelon” look - tourmaline with a green border and a red core.
Physical properties
Most clearly the play of light and its beauty tourmaline mineral displays in natural sunlight, it is not so effective in artificial light. An interesting property of this stone is pleochroism: looking at it from different angles, you can see that the shades of the stone are changing. The tourmaline mineral, the photo of which is presented in this article, is of varying degrees of transparency. In addition, it has a glass sheen. The stone has a fairly high hardness: 7-7.5 on the Mohs scale. Its density is 3-3.25 g / cm 3. At the same time, the fracture is uneven, conchoid. In nature, it comes in the form of crystals, as well as radially radiant formations called “tourmaline suns”.
The name of this mineral comes from the word "tourmali" (a stone that attracts ash). The term reflects its important property - the ability to electrify during friction or heating. In this case, one part of the crystal receives a negative charge, and the other receives a positive charge. Dutch merchants and sailors who brought this mineral to Europe for the first time actively used this effect. They cleaned their foam tubes with the help of heated crystals of the stone, due to which this stone was called “aschenzer”, which translates as “drawing ash”. This property of tourmaline is used in air ionizers and medical devices. Large crystals of the mineral are used in radio engineering.
Jewelry value
But the jewelry value of the stone depends on the color and degree of transparency. Some crystals are ornamental stones, others are semiprecious. Most valued are emerald green and raspberry tourmaline.
Mineral: healing properties
First of all, the sphere of healing effect of the stone is the nervous and endocrine systems. But depending on the shade, this mineral also has a narrow "specialization."
Blue tourmaline better than all its counterparts improves the functioning of the endocrine and lymphatic systems, helps get rid of headaches, and sharpens eyesight.
The green mineral tourmaline has a slightly different effect on humans. It has a positive effect on the kidneys, liver, skin and circulatory system. In addition, the stone has a rejuvenating effect on the body, improves immunity, supports the nervous system. It is useful to wear jewelry made of tourmaline for people who need to recover from strong mental stress and stress.
Blue stone works well on the nervous system. If you suffer from insomnia, stress, nervous tension, then he will be able to help you. Carry products with this stone - and these problems will become less.
Black tourmaline serves as an excellent protector, as it strengthens the aura of a person, protecting him from various external negative influences. And lithotherapists call it an excellent means of preventing influenza and SARS.
Magical properties
Tourmaline is a stone of people who want to develop. The main thing that he gives to his master is that he reveals his creative abilities, cleanses the mind and promotes spiritual growth. The mineral will give strength, a sense of security, peace and energy. In addition, it will increase self-confidence.
The stone has a good effect on the intellectual abilities of its owner. Putting on tourmaline jewelry, you cleanse yourself of various “litter”: doubts and anxieties, regrets about the past, obsessive thoughts. Such a talisman makes you more decisive, purposeful and courageous. Moreover, as a talisman, the stone protects against any negative external influences, including the evil eye.
It is believed that the most magical properties are expressed in red stone. He is a great love mascot. It brings love success to young people, increases potency and strengthens sexual energy. Also, raspberry or red mineral tourmaline is a talisman of artists - it gives them creative energy and inspiration. And the pink stone is called the assistant of lovers, because it gives them hope for reciprocity and helps to maintain love.
Black tourmaline was once considered a witch stone. Today, he is credited with the ability to remove negative energy from the owner, giving a person a unique ability to foresee. Blue and blue stones give peace, and also improve relationships with family people. Green helps to enjoy life, gives harmony and awakens hidden talents.
The multicolor tourmaline mineral is incredibly strong. He brings success and happiness, supports his master in love, creativity, filling his life with joy.
It is believed that the stone should be worn with short breaks. If it is worn constantly, the mineral can harm the emotional state of a person, causing him various obsessive thoughts.
Zodiac signs
Tourmaline of green shades is ideally suited for Capricorn, increasing his determination and perseverance, clarifying his thoughts, and also helping to concentrate. Aries and Lions are recommended to wear a red stone, Sagittarius - blue. The mineral helps them to succeed, to reveal their talents and abilities.
Tourmaline is good for those born under the sign of Libra. He reassures them, gives harmony. In addition, it helps to establish good relationships with others. To a dreamy Libra, he cleanses his mind, directing their forces to achieve success.
But the Virgin should not choose this stone as a talisman.
Places of occurrence
Tourmaline is not a rare stone, although there are few deposits of jewelry quality minerals. The largest of them are located in Sri Lanka, Brazil, Thailand, Africa (Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Mozambique). Brazilian deposits are famous for the emerald green color of the stone and its very large crystals. In this country, specimens up to 1 meter long were found. Sri Lanka supplies yellow-green and brown minerals. Pink tourmaline is mined in Burma, in Thailand - green. Deposits of this mineral are also known in the USA.
In our country, high-quality tourmalines of pink and red tones are located in Transbaikalia. And in the Urals there are deposits of stone of blue, pink, green colors.
Tourmaline in jewelry
When cutting, the mineral is often shaped into a rectangle due to its narrow and elongated crystalline structure. The crystals of the stone are delicious, pointed and thin, like a pencil. They are used very often as one of the elements of decoration. There are designers who even create a tourmaline rainbow in which all the colors of the spectrum are present.
Jewelry with tourmaline
In the East, stone has been used in jewelry for centuries. It was extracted together with other minerals from placers of Sri Lanka, India, Burma. He was known in Afghanistan. In eastern countries, and then in European, where tourmaline appeared by the middle of the eighteenth century, the mineral became incredibly fashionable. From the 16th century in Russia it was used to decorate church regalia, as well as utensils. Then its pink and red varieties were often mistaken for rubies.
For example, the largest stone that adorned the crown of the kings of the Czech Republic, according to an analysis made in 1998, is not a ruby, as previously thought. This is red tourmaline.
Another famous decoration from it is a bunch of grapes, which was donated by Gustav III (Swedish king) Catherine II. Now it is stored in the Diamond Fund. Rare in color and beauty, the stone exported, probably from Burma, is interestingly cut in the form of a bunch of grapes. Gold leaflets with green enamel, mounted on a stalk-pin, which is covered with black and white enamel, are in excellent contrast with the raspberry tone of the mineral.
But the crown of Anna Ioannovna, created in 1730, is crowned with a huge red tourmaline (500 carats), which is a stand for a diamond cross.
The Kremlin Armory houses salaries for sixteenth-century icons decorated with tourmalines. There is also a panagia. This is a cameo with the image of John the Baptist, surrounded by an ornament that is decorated with dark red tourmalines.
