Alexandrite Crystal Properties
Aka: Chrysoberyl
Grounding, Good Luck , Spiritual Transformation
Spiritual Properties
- Enhances intuition
- Promotes spiritual growth
- Attracts good luck and good fortune
- Helps reveal your true sense of purpose
- Has a divine connection with the heavens
- Balances the mind, emotions and passifies the soul
- Bridges the gap between the physical and etheric planes
- Guides you to inner transformation and spiritual evolvement
- Talisman to awaken the soul and invoke spiritual transformation
- Aids you in tuning your spiritual body to high vibrational dimensions
- Helps you recover alternative-life information and the Akashic records
- Connects you with the frequencies of Divine Knowledge and Divine Love, and helps you use them to gather knowledge
Mental Properties
- Centers the mind
- Boost self esteem
- Inspires your imagination
- Reinforces and realigns the mind
- Realigns the mind with the body
- Establishes harmony in your life
- Helps to create a strong will and personal magnetism
Emotional Properties
- Balances the emotions
- Strengthens willpower
- Enhances creative feelings
- Helps you achieve emotional maturity
- Encourages you to listen to your feelings
- Encourages you to find the joy in everyday life
- Helps you find joy within the different possibilities you see
- Helps you accept change and the emotional issues that come with change
- Assist you with accurately assessing and reacting to your emotions and others
Kundalini Properties
- Opens the Heart, Third Eye, and Crown chakras
Correspondence
- Chakras: Heart, Third Eye, and Crown
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Mercury
- Element: Air, Water, Earth
- Zodiacs: Scorpio
- Number: 1
Affirmations
- I see the beauty in every moment
- My luck is changing for the better
- I invite willpower into my life
- My intent will evolve me spiritually
Health Benefits
- Eases the symptoms of leukemia
- Helps you assimilate proteins more easily
- Powerful detoxifier and stimulates the liver
- Balances the nervous system and glandular system
- Soothes inflammation and tension in the neck muscles
- Helps heal the nervous system, reproductive organs and regenerates neurological tissue
- Supports and strengthens the pineal and pituitary glands, spleen, pancreas, male reproductive organs and neurological tissue
Fun Facts
- One of the birthstones for June and the gemstone for the 55th anniversary
- Appears green in sunlight and fluorescent light
- Originally was found in abundance, but has been over-mined
- More expensive than sapphire, ruby, and emeralds and more rare than diamonds
- Rarely treated to enhance
- Most alexandrite is lab grown
- largest-ever faceted alexandrite is owned by the Smithsonian Institute. It weighs 66 carats and is valued at over $4 million
- Mainly faceted into cushion and round cuts
- It became the national stone of tsarist Russia
- Tiffany and Co popularized the stone
- The color-change quality in alexandrite is due to trace amounts of chromium. Chromium is also the trace element that makes beryl emeralds green.
- Top-quality natural Alexandrite can cost more than $30,000 per carat.
- Fake alexandrite from the 1920s was made out of the mineral corundum (sapphire and ruby) and then laced with chromium or vanadium to create the color-change effect
- Synthetic alexandrite composed of chrysoberyl has been around since the 1960s. It is a very costly process, so this type of synthetic alexandrite is still costly.
- The largest uncut gem-quality alexandrite specimen ever found is the Sauer Alexandrite that weighs 122,540 carats and was found in Bahia, Brazil, in 1967
- Named After The soon to be leader of Russia, Czar Alexander II
- Discovered in 1834 in the ural mountains of russia
- Discovered By Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Physical Properties
| Color | Green shades, emerald-green, greenish-white, yellowish green, greenish-brown, yellow, blue, maybe violet-red to raspberry-red under incandescent light. Changes color in different lighting |
| Habit | Hexagonal twinning, Prismatic shards, Tabular, pseudo-hexagonal, or tiny gem-like inclusions within a larger matrix |
| Rarity | One of the rarest gemstones on earth |
| Luster | Vitreous |
| Species | Chrysoberyl |
| Zoning | Absent |
| Parting | Along twinned crystals |
| Streak | White |
| Gravity | 3.70 – 3.72 |
| Tenacity | Brittle |
| Fracture | Weak, Conchoidal |
| Cleavage | Distinct on [110] (though rarely observed), Imperfect on [010], Poor on [001] |
| Hardness | 8.5 |
| Locations | Sri Lanka, Burma, South Africa, Brazil, Madagascar, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, India, and USA, |
| Twinning | Common, producing either flattened heart-shaped or pseudohexagonal multiple contact and penetration twins |
| Inclusions | Chromium and Possibly fluorite, apatite, mica platelets, rutile, and multi-phase inclusions along with negative crystals, fingerprints, liquid inclusions, needles, and hollow tubes |
| Dispersion | Low, 0.014, r > v |
| Chatoyancy | Present |
| Pleochroism | Strong, X = red; Y = yellow-orange; Z = emerald-green |
| Fluorescence | Red |
| Birefringence | 0.009 |
| Diaphaneity | Transparent to Translucent |
| Melting point | 1870 °C |
| Luminescence | Weak red in SW and LW UV |
| Chemical Name | Beryllium Aluminum Oxide |
| Refractive Index | 1.744 – 1.755 |
| System/Structure | Orthorhombic |
| Optical properties | Strong TrichroismUltraviolet (UV) Fluorescence |
| Chemical Formula | BeAl₂O₄ |
| Chemical Classification | Beryllium |
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