#auralite-23

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Can I get a fusion between a rutile, lapis, and (canon) garnet?

- Auralite-23 - Erythrite - Roselite

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Auralite 23

So here’s our first crystal, Auralite 23. I bought one a week or so ago, at a trusted rock shop (they sell *just* rocks and jewelry). Yes I am going to go back and address this with them, but I suspect they are selling it as Auralite, because that’s the popular name given to it. We all know that popular names sell well.

This is my stone. Now, Auralite is supposed to be similar to Super-7, being a stone made up of several types of stones. And I mean, look at this stone. There’s certainly something else in it besides the obvious Amethyst. On a glance, that looks like Rutile, but the reddish hue puts me in mind of Hematite, which loves to take up space in Quartz. The current ‘write up’ for Auralite-23 says that this stone can have up to 23 minerals in it, including Magnetite, Gold, Silver, and a stone called Gialite/Gilalite. Let’s come back to that one in a moment, shall we?

Auralite-23 is purported to be from this singular mine/locality of Canada, around Thunder Bay, specifically. That’s great! Love to know where my rocks are from!

However, that Gialite/Gilalite I mentioned a moment ago? Is NOT found in Canada. At all. Feel free to look up Gilalite on Mindat.org, and you’ll see there’s only 4 countries where this stone is found and 2 of the localities are here in the SOUTHWEST of the USA - Arizona and Nevada. Also, Gilalite is a small, neon green puffball of a mineral, with a Mohs hardness of 2. Quartz and most of its family is up around 5.5-7. (I’ll cover Quartz as a singular, as well as a family in a later post). What I’m getting at is that sure, maybe this grade of Amethyst (not worth much) sells better under this fancy name, and a purported 20 odd minerals included, but that at least this mineral does not belong! Well, not from the Thunder Bay locality. I’ve checked on the localities for Amethyst, and I can find it in the same general area of Arizona as Gilalite. So be *very* careful of what locality Auralite-23 might be from.

So yeah, the two stones are basically ‘neighbors’ in Arizona and Nevada, but they don’t appear to be close enough (to me!) to have found together (Gilalite included Amethyst).

I cannot speak to it’s metaphysical abilities, as I haven’t worked with it directly yet. Honestly I have so many stones that working with individuals is time consuming, because they won’t work on a linear time scale. Yes I’ll write about that later as well.

[mineralists]

Auralite-23 'Three quartz species, Amethyst, Citrine and a rare form of metamicted green quartz. The mineral compounds they contain reportedly include Titanite, Cacoxenite, Lepidocrosite, Ajoite, Hematite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Goethite, Pyrolusite, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Nickel, Copper, Iron, Limonite, Sphalerite, Covellite, Chalcopyrite, Gialite, Epidote, Bornite and Rutile.'  Original source of photo cannot be found?