::SODALITE::

SODALITE

HEALING PROPERTIES:

Sodalite protects from external negative energy and is a highly grounding stone. If you use computers too much, wear it to shield against damaging effects of the radiation. Sodalite's color symbolizes wisdom and psychic activities. Fosters rational thinking, logic, intelligence, emotional balance, intuition, higher knowledge, clarity, truth and perception. It also soothes and heals the central nervous system. Sodalite clears the mind for deeper and wiser thinking, aids logic along with opening third eye intuition, stabilizes mental processes and aids in the shift from emotional to rational thinking. Use it if you are a person who over reacts emotionally or has panic attacks. Helps to eliminate confusion, change habits and stimulate ones intellect. Physically, it lowers blood pressure and balances the metabolism. Assists in sleep.

PHYSICAL CHEMICAL PROPERTIES:
Physical and Chemical Properties: Sodalite is a deep, rich blue stone with white inclusions typically occurring in nepheline, syenites and related rocks. It is composed of chloric sodium aluminum silicates (Tectosilicates, Sodalite Group ' Na₄Al₃Si₃O₁₂Cl). Sodalite rarely forms crystals (dodecahedrons), instead it is most commonly massive. It has poor cleavage and is uneven to subconchoidal fracture, therefore making it brittle. Soluble in hydrochloric and nitric acids, it also fuses fairly easy.

Sodalite

Chemical Formula

Na₄Al₃Si₃O₁₂Cl

Hardness

5.50

Specific Gravity

2.27

Refractive Index

1.48

ORIGIN HISTORY:
Sodalite is named in reference to its sodium content.

GEOGRAPHICAL DEPOSITS:
Rich blue masses are found near Bancroft, Ontario, and nearby along the York River there are several massive occurrences of hackmanite. Thinner veins of blue sodalite are found in nepheline rocks on the Ice River, British Columbia. Litchfield, Maine, yields sodalite in smaller masses of moderate richness. Colorless crystals are found in the altered limestone blocks thrown out by the eruptions of Vesuvius. Brazil seems to be today's major producer.