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Sugilite

Here are some examples of work incorporating this stone, and other links where it is mentioned.

Featured Works

Tire Swing
A textured silver pendant featuring a rectangular violet stone on a simple wire necklace.
Sugilite
Pass It On
Photograph of a silver pendant featuring an oval stone, a triangular purple gem, and an amethyst.
Boulder Opal, Sugilite, Chalcedony
Opportunities
Photograph of an abstract silver pendant with a gold textured block and a small purple gem.
Rough top Tiger's Eye, Sugilite
Alternate Timeline
Silver pendant with purple stones and gold accents
Sugilite, Amethyst
Purple Dreams
A trillion shaped pendant with a dangling purple stone.
Sugilite, Amethyst
Tyana
Silver pendant with purple stones
Amethyst, Sugilite
The Journey
Silver mountain pendant necklace, jewelry photograph.
Peridot, Sugilite, Moonstone
Two Stops on the Way Down
Silver pendant necklace with abstract design.
Sugilite, Rutilated Quartz, Citrine
Genie Out Da Bottle
Silver necklace with a purple stone pendant, on black.
Sugilite, Yellow Opal

About Sugilite

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Sugilite ( SOO-gə-lyte, -⁠jee-) is a relatively rare pink to purple cyclosilicate mineral with the complex chemical formula KNa2(Fe, Mn, Al)2Li3Si12O30. Sugilite crystallizes in the hexagonal system with prismatic crystals. The crystals are rarely found and the form is usually massive. It has a Mohs hardness of 5.5–6.5 and a specific gravity of 2.75–2.80. It is mostly translucent. Sugilite was first described in 1944 by the Japanese petrologist Ken-ichi Sugi (1901–1948) for an occurrence on Iwagi Islet, Japan, where it is found in an aegirine syenite intrusive stock. It is found in a similar environment at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. In the Wessels mine in Northern Cape Province of South Africa, sugilite is mined from a strata-bound manganese deposit. It is also reported from Liguria and Tuscany, Italy; New South Wales, Australia and Madhya Pradesh, India.

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