Presentation :

Names) :

• Chalcanthite.

Etymology:

• From the Latin Chalcanthum = copper flower, from a Greek word combining χαλκóσ (chalkos) = copper with ἃνθος (anthos) = flower .

Group, Family:

• Chalcanthite, Copper sulfate pentahydrate .

Color :

• Green, blue green, light blue or dark blue.

Chandelier:

• Vitreous, resinous.

Origin :

• It is originally found in the most oxidized areas of copper sulfide deposits, generally following mining, but sometimes also at the level of fumaroles . France, Peru, Poland, United States...

Crystal system:

• Triclinic.

Chemical composition:

• CuSO ₄ · 5H ₂ O .

Transparency:

• Transparent, translucent.

Density :

• 2.286, from 2.28 to 2.29 or generally between 2.2 and 2.3 .

Hardness:

• 2.5.

Cleavage:

• Null to Imperfect.

Break:

• Conchoidal.

Line color:

• White to colorless .

Impact resistance:

• Bad, fragile.

Heat resistance: 

• Bad.

Solubility:

• Soluble in water, which it colors blue.

Properties, benefits and virtues:

Virtues on the physical level:

• Helps fight arthritis.
• Helps fight water retention.
• Promotes cleansing of the arterial system.
• Antifungal and antibacterial, helps reduce the presence of bacteria and fungi, thus helping to prevent certain infections and maintain optimal body hygiene.
• Promotes liver detoxification functions and improves liver health.
• Promotes the circulatory system.
• Promotes the proper elimination of toxins in the body.
• Helps regulate skin and inflammation problems.
• Promotes good blood circulation.
  

Virtues on the mental and psychological levels:

• Promotes inner calm and peace.
• Promotes communication.
• Promotes concentration and helps resist intellectual fatigue, ideal during exam periods or intensive courses.
• Helps to better cope with life changes and periods of major transitions.
• Promotes and helps better verbalization of emotions and thoughts.
• Promotes and enables unblocking due to unspoken things.
• Relieves stress and anxiety and protects against melancholy and depressive states.
• Unblocks blockages and helps recover from certain psychological traumas.
• Restores self-esteem and confidence.
• Promotes the analytical mind, thus allowing one to sort between the useful and the futile and helps to stop wasting time in unnecessary procrastination.
• Promotes clarity of mind, helping to make clear and informed decisions without the intrusion of the mind and judgments or other prejudices.

Virtues on the spiritual level:

• Promotes meditation and spiritual elevation.
• Promotes connection with higher planes.
• Stimulates the third eye.
• Promotes clairvoyance and extrasensory perceptions.
• Promotes psychic visions.
• Develops sensory perceptions and develops intuition.
• Stabilizes the aura and purifies energies.
• Regulates and rebalances energies.
• Promotes the circulation of energies throughout the body and all chakras.

Environmental benefits:

• On the environmental level, it will help to get rid of heavy and toxic energies.

Chakras:

• It will be very useful on the 3rd eye chakra (6th ch) to develop intuition and connection with higher planes.
• It will allow better elocution and promote better communication if used on the throat chakra (5th ch).

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