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Load image into Gallery viewer, Dravite ou Tourmaline brune du Brésil pierre roulée Grade A++++ Dravite ou Tourmaline brune du Brésil pierre roulée Dans la besace du p'tit Poucet
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Dravite or Brown Tourmaline from Brazil tumbled stone Grade A++++

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Presentation :

Names) :

  • Dravite and Uvite-dravite: “Chrome tourmaline”.

Etymology:

  • Named after the Drava, a river in Austria (Tschermak, 1883).

Group, Family:

  • Tourmaline Group.

Color :

  1. 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 chatoyance or asterism, sometimes color changing effect (red-brown / dark green to green-brown) in certain stones very rich in chromium.
  2. 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 | Coloring: Dark green ("chrome tourmaline"): Vandium and little chromium in V3+ and Cr3+ form in octahedral coordinations | Yellow to Brown: Titanium associated with Charge Transfer | Red: Iron in the form of Fe3+ pair.

Transparency:

  • Transparent, Translucent to Opaque.

Density :

  • 2.98 to 3.29 generally 3.10 | Uvite-dravite around 3.05 to 3.07.

Hardness :

  • 7 to 8.

Cleavage:

  • Null.

Breakage:

  • Irregular, slightly conchoidal.

Line color:

  • White.

Shock resistance:

  • Good.

Heat resistance:

  • Good.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

  • Helps stimulate the regeneration of the body and allows you to recover more quickly from too drunken evenings.
  • Regulates and treats intestinal problems and promotes intestinal transit.
  • Treats and soothes skin diseases.
  • Calms and soothes dermatoses.
  • Harmonizes circulation between the hemispheres of the brain.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

  • Helps to alleviate and soothe conflicting relationships.
  • Encourages openness to others and impulses of sociability.
  • Brings courage and tenacity.
  • Protects and purifies the body from self-pollution that we can do to ourselves through forms of 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 clear.
  • Promotes empathy and team spirit.

Spiritual virtues:

  • Promotes anchoring.
  • Balances Yin and Yang energies.
  • Balances, aligns and protects the etheric body.

Chakra:

  • Root chakra, 1st Ch.

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