BORNITE aka PEACOCK ORE: Bornite, also known as peacock ore, is a sulfide mineral with chemical composition that crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (pseudo-cubic). Bornite has a brown to copper-red color on fresh surfaces that tarnishes to various iridescent shades of blue to purple in places. Its striking iridescence gives it the nickname peacock copper or peacock ore. This specimen is 99% covered in a particularly vivid iridescent shade of blues through purple with bits of orange too. Specimen measures approximately 79.25 mm wide, 58 mm deep, 28 mm thick and weighs 276 grams. *Thanks to our friends at Healing Crystals, Healing Stones: This stone of happiness and joy will help you tune into positive forces in life and channel that energy to others. Balzar calls this the stone of joyfulness. It brings to the user a feeling that the way it is, is the way it is supposed to be. It brings you the ability to see and accept the joy in any moment. Peacock Ore also compliments an understanding that there is nothing wrong in any aspect of ones incarnation. Everything is for purposeful good. It assists in separating the positive from the negative and allows you to understand the distinct difference. Peacock Ore is one of the strongest healing stones on the mineral kingdom. It has the ability to align every chakra when applied to a given chakra. The energy within Peacock Ore creates a circular, clockwise motion. Even though it is placed on one chakra, it will affect the other six. It can cause a transformation that removes negative energy and replaces it with a strong, beneficial, positive energy. It possesses the unique property of energizing not only the area on which it is placed, but all affects all of the surrounding area as well. Peacock Ore is a very powerful mineral. PHYSICAL: When used for healing, especially in the area above the navel chakra, that is at least one inch above the navel chakra, it assists in the flow of adrenalin. Usually this is done when a person is in an over acid state. The Peacock Ore will increase alkalinity. Also, it can be used to lower calcium levels in the body. This would work well in treating arthritic conditions. When use below the navel chakra, which would be at the belly button and lower, the Peacock Ore will increase the acidic level and lower the alkaline level of the body. In this position it will also help lower the sodium content of the body. EMOTIONAL: Minimal impact with the exception that when one is in a state of harmony all the emotions are in balance. MENTAL: This is the stone of the rebirther. It assists one in integrating and bringing into unity the existing separation of emotions with intellect. Human is emotion and God is intellect. The Peacock Ore helps to remove the illusion that God and you are separate. Also, it casts out any ideas or thoughts which no longer serve you. You would place a piece of Peacock Ore at the crown chakra of the subject during a rebirthing session. MINERALOGY: Bornite is an important copper ore mineral and occurs widely in porphyry copper deposits along with the more common chalcopyrite. Chalcopyrite and bornite are both typically replaced by chalcocite and covellite in the supergene enrichment zone of copper deposits. Bornite is also found as disseminations in mafic igneous rocks, in contact metamorphic skarn deposits, in pegmatite’s and in sedimentary cupriferous shales. It is important as an ore for its copper content of about 63 % by mass. STRUCTURE: At temperatures above 228 °C, the structure is isometric with a unit cell that is about 5.50 Å on an edge. This structure is based on cubic close-packed sulfur atoms, with copper and iron atoms randomly distributed into six of the eight tetrahedral sites located in the octants of the cube. With cooling, the Fe and Cu become ordered, so that 5.5 Å subcells in which all eight tetrahedral sites are filled alternate with subcells in which only four of the tetrahedral sites are filled; symmetry is reduced to orthorhombic COMPOSITION: Substantial variation in the relative amounts of copper and iron is possible and solid solution extends towards chalcopyrite and digenite. Exsolution of blebs and lamellae of chalcopyrite, digenite, and chalcocite is common. FORM AND TWINNING: Rare crystals are approximately cubic, dodecahedral, or octahedral. Usually massive. Penetration twinning on the crystallographic direction. OCCURRENCES: It occurs globally in copper ores with notable crystal localities in Butte, Montana and at Bristol, Connecticut in the U. S. A. It is also collected from the Carn Brea mine, Illogan, and elsewhere in Cornwall, England. Large crystals are found from the Frossnitz Alps, eastern Tirol, Austria; the Mangula mine, Lomagundi district, Zimbabwe; from the N’ouva mine, Talate, Morocco, the West Coast of Tasmania and in Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. There are also traces of it found amongst the hematite in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION a bit technical: Formula mass 501.88 g/mol Color Copper red, bronze brown, purple Crystal habit Granular, massive, disseminated - Crystals pseudocubic, dodecahedral, octahedral Crystal system Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal Twinning Penetration twins on Cleavage Poor on. Fracture Uneven to subconchoidal; brittle Tenacity Brittle Mohs scale hardness 3 - 3.25 Luster Metallic if fresh, iridescent tarnish Streak grayish black Specific gravity 5.06 - 5.08 Refractive index Opaque Pleochroism Weak but noticeable
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