Lapis Lazuli Sterling Silver Pendant

Lapis Lazuli Sterling Silver PendantThe deep night blue is flecked with goldyou are looking at three minerals at once. Lapis lazuli is not a single mineral but a rock: an aggregate of lazurite (the blue, a feldspathoid), white calcite, and gold pyrite inclusions. The depth of color depends on the lazurite concentration; the gold flecks are metallic pyrite. Set here in a rectangular cabochon in solid . 925 sterling silver. The finest material has come from the Sar e Sang mines in

The deep night-blue is flecked with gold—you are looking at three minerals at once.

Lapis lazuli is not a single mineral but a rock: an aggregate of lazurite (the blue, a feldspathoid), white calcite, and gold pyrite inclusions. The depth of color depends on the lazurite concentration; the gold flecks are metallic pyrite. Set here in a rectangular cabochon in solid .925 sterling silver. The finest material has come from the Sar-e-Sang mines in Afghanistan—the same deposit that supplied ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome—for over 6,000 years.

Pharaohs had lapis lazuli ground into pigment for their tomb paintings and worn as an emblem of divine authority. In contemporary chakra tradition, lapis is linked to the throat and third-eye chakras and to clear, precise expression.

A pendant with genuine depth of history—made to be worn against the skin or layered with other pendants on a long chain.