Crystal of the Day
Dolomite
(Color: often pink or pinkish and can be colorless, white, yellow, gray or even brown or black when iron is present in the crystal)
Hardness: 3.5-4
Specific Gravity: 2.86
Chemistry: (Calcium Magnesium Carbonate) CaMg(CO3)2
Class: Carbonates
Crystallography: trigonal; bar 3
Cleavage: perfect in three directions forming rhombohedrons
Fracture: conchoidal
Streak: White
Luster: pearly to vitreous to dull
Dolomite, is named for the French mineralogist Deodat de Dolomieu.
Healing: Dolomite is used to bolster ones calcium content. Also helps with PMS. Dolomite is used to lift ones spirits and to relieve sorrow. Astrological sign of Aries. Vibrates to the number 3.
Workings: Dolomite is used to enhance the energy of ones spells. Its atrological sign is Ares. Vibrates to the number 3.
Chakra Applications: Used to open and heal the Heart chakra. Also used to align, balance and to remove blockage from the Chakras.
Foot Notes: Dolomite is a very common mineral and can be found in many localities throughout the world, but is well known from sites in Midwestern quarries of the USA; Ontario, Canada; Mexico; Switzerland; and in Pamplona, Spain. The amount of calcium and magnesium in most specimens is equal, but occasionally one element may have a slightly greater presence than the other. Dolomite is used to make magnesia, which has important medicinal applications. Dolomite is also used as an ornamental and structural stone, and for extracting certain metals from their ores. It is useful in the chemical industry in the preparation of magnesium salts. Best field indicators are typical pink color, crystal habit, hardness, slow reaction to acid, density and luster.
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