Entry № 178
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

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
Related Crystals
Stones that share this lattice
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