Feldspar and other minerals

One of the most diverse, taking different images of minerals is all the familiar feldspar. It is a part of granite, and some of its processed varieties are considered semiprecious stones: a labrador, a "moon" stone, an amazonite. Its various types of layman will not for anything be attributed to the same mineral - he is so many-sided. It differs quite a considerable hardness - 6 on the Mohs scale.

Feldspar has long been used by humans. For example, the secret of the finest and high-quality Chinese porcelain is precisely that it contains the above-mentioned mineral. Now it is used in the production of glass and ceramics - why reinvent the wheel? Well, more or less decorative varieties of it are used for various kinds of ornaments.

The mineral is very common: up to 50% of the earth's crust, one way or another - feldspar. Decorative varieties of it are found a little less often, but in the world there are several large deposits.

Mineral shungite consists of carbon and hydrogen. It's pretty easy to mess with coal, but shungite does not burn. It is believed that this mineral has unique properties, even now pyramids, spheres, therapeutic pastes, massage aids and, of course, jewelry are made of it. In industry, it is used as a material for filters.

Shungite is credited with numerous medicinal properties. On the assurances of the Lithuanian therapists, thanks to its unique crystal lattice, it is able to purify water, cure asthma, allergies, burns, joint diseases. Many believe that it also has the ability to protect against computer radiation, so quite often in the apartments you can see next to the computers shungite pyramids. Who knows, maybe this is not devoid of rational grain. Only one large shungite deposit is open in the world, and it is located in Karelia.

Iron pyrites, or pyrite - a mineral of yellow color with a beautiful metallic luster. At the time of the so-called gold rush, he became a frequent prey for inexperienced prospectors, for which he was nicknamed "the gold of fools". However, It is quite easy to distinguish pyrite from gold - it can not be scratched with a knife, but he himself does not scratch the glass effortlessly.

The ancients attributed special properties to this mineral, they believed that the soul of fire was hidden in it, which was reflected in its name. This belief was confirmed by the ability of pyrite to strike sparks in a collision with a steel object. In modern lithotherapy, he takes an honorable place. It is believed that this mineral normalizes and harmonizes all the processes in the body. Pirita is attributed to a variety of properties: from protecting a person from negative influences to pushing him into rather dubious acts.

The world of minerals is very interesting: the enigmatic shungite, pyrite, which the medieval alchemists vainly tried to turn into gold, feldspar, at the same time ubiquitous and quite rare. How can we resist and not get carried away by mineralogy?