Amazonite - Mohs 6


                                                                         Find Amazonite Jewelry

Amazonite is a light green to blue-green variety of microcline feldspar. Although you can find stones that are just green, you more often see white or grayish white striations in it that are probably other types of feldspars. These striated stones may show a play of light that glides across the surface, similar to a moonstone. It is found many places around the world.

There are a variety of metaphysical properties associated with amazonite, but one of note is that amazonite is supposed to makes married life happier.

In the pictures above, although the camera did not capture it, the heart has a play of light that glides around the stone pretty much any way you hold it. The middle two pictures are the same stone, just turned end for end. In the first orientation you do not see any play of light as you move the stone. In the second picture, as you lift the left edge up, you do see the color play and the stone loses its predominant green in favor of brilliant reflections of white. The camera caught a little bit of this that shows as roughness in the image. The third stone is much bluer in color and there is no color play at all.