#phenacite

Not gonna directly tag everyone but I'll still credit the owners of the OCs so you can check them out if you want to, either on Tumblr or Art Fight :)

First up, Jeci Itsetsu (@/sodacanzxdd) reminds me of Phenacite, known as 'The Angel Stone', which symbolises meditation!

Eight and Lill (@/sniffingcinnamon) remind me of Opal, known as 'The Precious Stone', which symbolises emotional connection!

Biscuit (@/marquaismakesthings) reminds me of Amber, known as 'The Stone of Frozen Sunlight', which symbolises energy!

Ramune (@/wawe05) reminds me of Lepidolite, known as 'The Stone of Transition', which symbolises harmony!

Finally, Vee (@/frogn0sis) reminds me of Hematite, known as 'The Stone of the Mind', which symbolises grounding!

Phenacite, who despite appearances, just wants to play minecraft and fortnite in peace

ASCENSION - Third Eye, Heart and Crown Chakra expansion

When your cousins are also enlightened and send you crystals. I came home to a moldavite and phenacite (sometimes phenakite).

Phenakite

Sometimes spelt with a c rather than a k this relative rarity is a beryllium silicate that is occasionally faceted into gems (since it is nice and hard, with a Mohs rating of 8), and was used in olden days as a diamond imitant in cheaper jewellery. Transparent material is colourless to yellowish (often resembling quartz, and its name comes from the Greek for deceiver due to this characteristic) though it can range into brown or pink, while the translucent examples are often greyish. It forms in high temperature veins of freezing granitic magma and some metamorphic rocks whose predecessors (known as protoliths) were enriched in beryllium, either initially or during the process of being baked and squished into schists. It also forms as a weathering by product of beryl.

It often forms in association with other beautiful gemstones, including Chrysoberyl (see https://bit.ly/1XRqRer), Apatite (see https://bit.ly/2akYWkg) and Topaz (see https://bit.ly/2z0QPds ). Localities include the emerald and Chrysoberyl mines of the Urals mountains in Russia (see https://bit.ly/2ooyAEU) and the topaz mines of the Ilmen range, Pikes Peak in Colorado, the Noumas II Pegmatite in South Africa, Minas Gerais in Brazil, Norway and Alsace in France while catseye gems are found in Madagascar and Sri Lanka. Our first photo depicts a Phenakite floater from a beryl dissolution cavity at the Noumas II pegmatite measuring 1.2x0.5x0.4cm, our second on a bed of smoky quartz (see https://bit.ly/2KncVew) is from the Mogok stone tract of Burma and measures 4.8 x 3.5 x 2.6 cm while the third etched piece had no accompanying size or origin data but displays the crystallograhic chewing etched by caustic Earth fluids during its geological history.

Loz

Image credit: 1: Cape Minerals 2/3:Rob Lavinsky/iRocks.com