This stone is an aqueous aluminum-sodium phosphate, its color varies from green to yellowish-green and light-yellow color. But sometimes there are transparent crystals. Brasilianite has a glassy sheen.
The main deposits are in the USA, Brazil and Canada.
The healing and magical properties of brazilianite
Medical properties. It is generally believed that wearing a brazilianite in the ring, the work of the liver, pancreas, kidneys and bladder is normal, and if the earring is with him, you can get rid of headaches and insomnia. The mineral that is worn in the bracelet and the one that is trimmed into silver can positively affect the musculoskeletal system.
Magical properties . The magical properties of the Brazilianite to the South American Indians are well known. In ancient times, shamans were swallowed by the use of water spirits, summoning rains in arid times and turning to the spirits of their ancestors through him in the hope of finding out from them what would happen to the newborn rulers and whether the person was going to be prosperous or unsuccessful. Also brazilianite is a stone of fortune-tellers, mystics, magicians and a witch. He helps them to perform rituals, as if connecting them with the world beyond. Those who are inclined to mysticism, the mineral is not safe to wear, because he will try to create in their minds pictures that a really thinking, pragmatic person will not be able to decipher, which can easily lead to insanity and mental disorders. But the dreamers, but by no means liars, the mineral will provide a very wide choice of various variations of fancies. To those who are inclined to lie, the stone can seriously damage and confuse the owner in their own words, after which the person will cease to understand even himself, will not be able to understand where he is lying, and where he is telling the truth.
Astrologers give advice according to which the Brazilian should be followed by musicians, artists, writers, healers, fortunetellers and sorcerers. But representatives of other professions can also use it if they need to make some discovery or understand the intention of some other person.
A stone weighing 19 carats with a diamond cut is in the Natural History Museum in New York, USA, and the other, larger than the first, has a facet for emerald and a weight of 23 carats.
First ignorantly thought that brazilianite is chrysoberyl, but the researchers EP Henderson and Frederic Pou discovered in 1945 that this stone is an entirely new mineral. The size of the crystals reaches at times twenty centimeters.