Sodalite Crystal Pyramid Hematite polished into mirrors

polished into mirrors

with a deeper aromatic register: smokier

2nd century BCE)

no mineral had been named after a person before - every such name since follows it

and emerald until Brazil’s great deposits arrived in the nineteenth century

Sodalite Crystal Pyramid Hematite polished into mirrorsSodalite deep navy veined with white, cut to four faces and an apex, the mineral kin of lapis lazuli: the blue without the gold. From Brazil, cut as a pyramid. It is a sodium aluminium silicate carrying chlorine in its lattice, and it gives its name to a mineral group; lazurite, the blue of lapis, is a member of that group, so the two are true kin. The white veining is calcite. Sodalite carries no pyrite, so there are no gold flecks the choice between