JET BLACK COLUMBITE SPHERE

JET BLACK COLUMBITE SPHERE

SIZE: 54mm

WEIGHT: 250g

ORIGIN: Madagascar

Hand polished.

Columbite is the most widespread niobium mineral and makes for an important ore of the industrially useful metal. Niobium, Nb, is used in alloys for improved strength. It also has shown superconductive properties and is being studied with other metals for a possible breakthrough alloy in this new industrial field. Niobium had been called columbium hence the name columbite.
Chemical Formula: (Fe, Mn, Mg)(Nb, Ta)2O6, Iron Manganese Magnesium Niobium Tantalum Oxide.
Color is dark black, iron-black to dark brown.
Luster is submetallic.
Transparency: Crystals are nearly opaque being transparent in thin splinters.
Notable Occurrences include Newry, Maine; San Diego Co., California; Colorado and Amelia, Virginia, USA; Renfrow County, Ontario, Canada; Madagascar; Sweden; Norway; Brazil; Argentina; Kugi-Lyal, Pamir, Russia and Finland.
Columbite is a prismatic stone that can be black, grey, brown, brownish black or reddish brown.

It corresponds to the Zodiac sign of Aquarius.
This is an all purpose stone that is used to activate all of the chakras at ones and encourage the higher self and the physical self to “talk to each other.” It provides over all balance to the entire human.
It helps one make positive decisive moves and eliminates the kind of laziness and indolence that comes with a bitterness or depression.
It is also said to help improve the eyesight.

All our stones are natural, not man-made.
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