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Dianite Blue Jade

Dianite (Blue 'Jade')

A Siberian pyroxene that only borrows jade's name.

Chakra

Throat · Third Eye

Element

Water · Air

Zodiac

Aquarius · Pisces

Dianite Blue Jade

I. The Metaphysical Reading

How the stone has been held.

Dianite is worked with as a stone of measured speech, kept in a pocket during difficult conversations and any practice that asks a person to say true things without raising their voice. Practitioners hold it as a reminder that calm is a form of authority.

Chakra
Throat · Third Eye
Element
Water · Air
Zodiac
Aquarius · Pisces
Keynote
A Siberian pyroxene that only borrows jade's name.

II. The Scientific Reading

What the lattice actually does.

Dianite is a rare blue rock discovered in the 1990s in the Chary-Tokkinsky alkaline complex of Yakutia, made largely of the fibrous sodium-calcium silicate mineral dianite (a K-bearing member of the canasite / miserite chemistry family). It is sometimes marketed as 'blue jade', but it is not a jade — neither jadeite nor nephrite — and its softer hardness reflects that.

Formula
Na₂Ca(Si₄O₁₀)(F,OH)₂ (with K, Ba)
System
Triclinic
Hardness
5.5 – 6 (Mohs)
Provenance
Russia — Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Chary-Tokkinsky massif

References & Sources

Independent mineralogical references used to verify the scientific details above.

Mineral Profile

Fact Sheet

Chemical Formula
Na₂Ca(Si₄O₁₀)(F,OH)₂ (with K, Ba)
Crystal System
Triclinic
Mohs Hardness
5.5 – 6 (Mohs)
Density
2.90 – 2.98 g/cm³
Refractive Index
1.560 – 1.588
Provenance
Russia — Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Chary-Tokkinsky massif
Color Origin
Soft powder-blue to pale grey-blue with fine white streaks

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