Dravite Brown Tourmaline
Presentation :
Names) :
- Dravite and Uvite-dravite: “Chrome tourmaline”.
Etymology:
- Named after the Drava, a river in Austria (Tschermak, 1883).
Group, Family:
- Tourmaline Group.
Color :
- Dravite: Brown, dark yellow-brown to orange-brown, bronze, black, greenish-black, yellow, dark red to red-brown, emerald green ("chrome tourmaline"), dark green to dark blue, sometimes colorless, sometimes green-vrun, yellow-green-brown chatoyancy or asterism, sometimes color change effect (red-brown / dark green to green-brown) in some stones very rich in chrome.
- Uvite-dravite: Shades of brown, yellow-brown, orange-brown.
Chandelier:
- Glassy.
Origin :
- Africa: Kenya, Tanzania (Uvite-dravite); Sri Lanka, United States, New Mexico, New Jersey; Australia, etc.
Crystal system:
- Trigonal.
Chemical composition:
- Dravite: NaMg3Al6(BO3)3[Si6O18](OH)4 forms two series with Schorl: NaFe3+3Al6(BO3)3[Si6O18](OH)4 and Elbaite: Na(Al1.5Li1.5)Al6(BO3)3[Si6O18](OH)4 | Uvite: CaMg3Al6(BO3)3[Si6O18][(OH3)O] can form mixtures with Dravite: NaMg3Al6(BO3)3[Si6O18](OH)4 | Coloration: Dark green ("chrome tourmaline"): Vandium and little chromium in V3+ and Cr3+ form in octahedral coordinations | Yellow to Brown: Titanium associated with a Charge Transfer | Red: Iron in the form of Fe3+ pair.
Transparency:
- Transparent, Translucent to Opaque.
Density :
- 2.98 to 3.29 usually 3.10 | Uvite-dravite around 3.05 to 3.07.
Hardness:
- 7 to 8.
Cleavage:
- Null.
Break:
- Irregular, slightly conchoidal.
Line color:
- White.
Impact resistance:
- Good.
Heat resistance:
- Good.
Properties, benefits and virtues:
Virtues on the physical level:
- Helps stimulate the body's regeneration and allows you to recover more quickly from excessively drunken evenings.
- Regulates and treats intestinal problems and promotes intestinal transit.
- Treats and soothes skin conditions.
- Calms and soothes skin conditions.
- Harmonizes circulation between the hemispheres of the brain.
Virtues on the psychological, emotional and mental level:
- Helps to reduce and calm conflictual relationships.
- Encourages openness to others and sociability.
- Brings courage and tenacity.
- Protects and purifies the body from self-pollution that can be caused by negative thought patterns or actions.
- Helps and promotes a good understanding of everything that is us and what makes our path and our obstacles. Allows us to bring a little clarity to everything that is not necessarily so.
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Promotes empathy and team spirit.
Virtues on the spiritual level:
- Promotes anchoring.
- Balances Yin and Yang energies.
- Balances, aligns and protects the etheric body.
Chakra:
- Root Chakra, 1st Ch.
Cleaning, recharging, reprogramming:
- Clean with clear spring water or filtered water (never add salt to the water. Salt alters the structure of the mineral and the abyss). Soak the mineral overnight in an unmarked glass container, then take it out in the morning to rinse it with fresh spring or filtered water.
- Direct charging on a crystal or amethyst druse, in a crystal or amethyst geode. You can also place a dozen laser crystals or rocks in a circle (like a time dial), points towards the center, and place your minerals in the center to charge them. Another method is to place your minerals in a singing bowl: Tibetan or crystal bowl, (on a cotton cloth to avoid bowl/mineral vibrations), then ring the bowl to fill your minerals with this sound energy. Last method is to place your minerals on a disc (wood or mineral) engraved with the flower of life or the seal of Solomon or any other form of sacred geometry.
- Reprogramming: Reprogramming is not about telling your mineral what to do or not to do, but about putting the mineral in resonate with you to ask it to do what it needs to do, for you. Reprogramming must be done after each cleansing and must remain simple. Example of reprogramming: "I ask this mineral to bring me all the virtues and benefits on the different levels, for my greater good as well as for the greater good of the people around me."
