Lazulite (excellent crystals)

Item Description

Fine display quality crystallized specimens of Lazulite are not terribly common in nature, and the area around Rapid Creek in the Yukon of Canada has produced the finest Lazulite crystals the world in terms of color and quality. Lazulite is a magnesium aluminum phosphate, and crystals can range in color from a seafoam-green, to a sky blue to an intense midnight blue shade. The dark blue crystals are synonymous with Rapid Creek. This area is only accessible for a few months in the summer for collecting (it's under snow and ice the rest of the year), and is some of the most treacherous terrain in the world for collecting specimens with steep talus slopes and unstable ground. Here we have a lovely display piece featuring excellent quality, sharp, lustrous, very well formed, monoclinic, deep inky blue color crystals of Lazulite measuring up to a full 1.0 cm associated with brown Siderite and small gem Quartz crystals on matrix. The label accompanying the piece states that Apatite is present on the piece, but I honestly couldn't find any even looking closely with a loupe, perhaps there are some micro Apatites, but I can't say for certain if this is the case. No major damage I can see, and a choice example of this world-class material.
From the collection of John Dagenais.