PLANERITE Colour: light green, white, pale green, pale blue Found in: Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Spain and the US. This stone is named after Dimitrii Ivanovich Planer (1821-1882), a mineralogist from Russia, who discovered the species. It is a stone to bring about a sense of strength and power. It is good for improving communication and particularly beneficial in winning arguments. REFERENCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY: Foord, E.E. & Taggart, J.E. (1998): A reexamination of the turquoise group; the mineral aheylite, planerite (redefined), turquoise and coeruleolactite. Mineralogical Magazine, 62, 93-111. Pekov, I.V. (1998) Minerals First Discovered on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union: 166-167. Photograph: taken from Mindat, copyright © 2009, JGW More photographs can be found here: http://www.mindat.org/photoscroll.php?frm_id=pscroll&cform_is_valid=1&searchbox=Planerite This is not an advertisement/endorsement of any seller or dealer above any other. Other companies selling this item are available. Text copyright: © madcatwoman 2014, www.madcatwoman.co.uk For detailed healing properties and photographs of many of the more common gemstones and minerals, please visit the Madcatwoman Enterprise Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Madcatwoman-Enterprises/139677792795144?ref=hl&sk=photos_albums