Azure Market Information In Asia

What is Azure or Lazuli Lapis and its characteristics?

A name taken from the Persian lājevard and taken from the Arabic is common. In the past, in addition to aspects of radial and dignity causing the stone to the rich, this stone has more applications in dyeing fabrics, glazed and painted porcelain pottery, tile -making and properties of Azure in treatment and medical use.

Azure is not a mineral and is a metaphorical rock with a chemical formula Na, Ca ₈ Al ₆ Si ₆ O ‎‎₂₄ (S, SO) ₄. It consists of several different minerals such as mica, calcite (white impurities on ‎it, diopside, hornblende, augite, hoinite, and pyrite, the main minerals of which are lazurite and ‎sodalite (blue).‎

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Synthetic Azure Stones that you may confuse with natural azure!

Now, if the amount of pyrite is high, azure can be seen as a green or matte background. ‎In Lapis lazuli from Chile (north of Santiago) and Russia, they have a lower value due to the ‎presence of prominent streaks and white spots of calcite.‎

so you should not confuse them with lapis lazuli gemstone.

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How to distinguish the original azure from the fake Lazuli Lapis

Artificial and plastic stones heat ‎up with a little touch. Wet a cotton ball with acetone and hit the rock surface. This material ‎dissolves the artificial color in itself. Check the color difference in the cracks of its surface ‎with the magnifying loop. As a destructive test for azure reconstructed with plastic material, ‎the hot tip of the metal rod gives off an unpleasant plastic odor. These specimens also sink by ‎pressing under the tooth. Be careful when buying azure that has a uniform color without streaks ‎or spots and is very colorful and looks like artificial colors. With the Chelsea Filter ‎Gemological Tool, you can distinguish original azure from synthetic and laboratory. Under ‎Chelsea Filter (Chelsea filter), Natural lapis lazuli reflects a faint reddish-brown light, while a ‎synthetic lapis lacquer reflects bright red light.‎

‎ Obtained a guarantee from the seller that in case of a negative answer, the gemology ‎laboratory will take it back.‎

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Where are the Azure or Lapis lazuli Mines?

There are very few azure mines in the world, and today in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, the ‎Kokcheh Valley in the Kranomunjan region, as well as the western Hindu Kush mountains near ‎the source of the Amu Darya River, are among the best azure species in the world still extracted ‎by traditional methods. Afghan Lapis lazuli has been considered since 6500 years ago during the ‎Achaemenid period, which was part of Iran.‎

Pakistan in the Chagay Mountains at Bibi Dick, 35 km north of Dalbandian near the Afghan ‎border, Lake Baikal in western Russia where Lapis lazuli contains Dolomite marble, the ‎Pamirs, South America, the Sinai Peninsula, and parts of Iran. ‎

Lapis lazuli stone mines in historical texts and Islamic books

Scientists have so far identified several mines for lapis lazuli, but only a few by lithological experiments approved. Abu Rihan al-Biruni writes in the valuable book Al-Jamahir Fi Al-Ma'rifah Al-Jawahir:

In the tenth century, which includes the last period of writing this article, Bayhaqi and Mohammad Ibn Mansour mentioned four mines in the Kashani style in mentioning the azure mines. With the difference that instead of the Georgian mine, they call it the Karaji mine. Beyhaqi states this in determining the location of Karaj.

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What is the best type of azure stone?‎

In general, the deeper the blue lapis lazuli stone, the higher the value of one azure and without ‎cracks and golden streaks of pyrite. Where you can see the gold dots and the smoother and ‎more colorful and less white spots on it, this Azure is the better.‎

Today, Lapis Lazuli type afghan or Persian has a bluish-purple color and is classified as one of ‎the best types of azure with a small amount of pyrite. Russian type or Siberian They have ‎different blue colors and some amounts of pyrite and calcite. Another example called Chilean ‎is green dots as well as white calcite as a tree.‎

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Properties of Azure in Ancient Medical Books

The azure healing status and trade of this stone to meet the medical and medicinal needs is ‎always empty in the interpretations of archaeologists, but in the texts and sources of ancient ‎books, information can be obtained about the healing and medical properties of the azure stone.‎

Amoli considers azure to be effective for biliary diarrhea, insomnia, treatment of people with ‎melancholy, and eyelash growth. According to the information obtained from historical books, ‎the most important medicinal properties of azure can be considered as the treatment of ‎insomnia and biliary diarrhea, treatment of people with melancholy and eyelash growth.

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Spiritual Properties of Azure in Chakra Therapy

This stone helps the person to gain more knowledge from within and eliminate emotional damage. The properties of Lapis lazuli also enhance intuitive awareness, increase meditation depth, activate the third eye and enhance a person's ability to dream and understand intuitive guidance.

Lapis Lazuli was used to bury and adorn the pharaohs in ancient Egypt, and as a stone belonging to the monarchy and spirituality, it has excelled over others. This stone belongs to the truth and is an inspiring awareness and brings new information to a person's mind in the form of images instead of words.