 | Cacoxinite activates the crown and brow (third eye) chakras. It stimulates the psychic abilities and intuition. It enhances insight. It balances and integrates personal will with the higher Self. Cacoxinite encourages new thinking and creative ideas. Cacoxinite sometimes forms as an inclusion in Quartz or Amethyst and is one of the minerals that make up a Super Seven.
Photo shows Cacoxinite in matrix.
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|  | In general, Calcite speeds up spiritual development. It brings emotional stability, consistency and self-trust. It increases the ability to overcome challenges. It encourages the transformation of ideas into action by amplifying energy, mastery and success. Calcite stimulates the metabolism and benefits the immune system and the heart. It enhances growth in children. It alleviates skin and intestinal conditions and encourages healing of tissue and bone.
Photo shows an acid polished piece of massive Calcite.
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|  | Blue Calcite is a calming and soothing stone. It enhances communications and thought processes. It is beneficial for the throat, lungs, tonsillitis, thyroid and joints, and reduces the symptoms of arthritis, and high blood pressure.
Photo shows a Blue Calcite Wand. |
|  | Green Calcite brings abundance in all areas, especially for success, prosperity and business. It enhances intuition and psychic abilities. It is beneficial for the heart, thymus, chest, shoulders, kidneys, bladder and lower lungs and reduces the symptoms of heartburn, nervous tics, stammering, neurosis and arthritis. Green Calcite is also especially beneficial for healing tumours and other malignancies.
Photo shows an acid polished piece of Green Calcite.
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|  | Honey Calcite enhances mental clarity and concentration. It promotes wisdom and honesty. It lifts the mood and energies, cleanses and heals at all levels. It aids digestion and cellular regeneration.
Photo shows a Honey Calcite tumblestone. |
|  | Lime Calcite speeds up spiritual development and transforms ideas into action. It aids communication during difficult and challenging conversations. Lime Calcite stimulates the metabolism, forties the immune system and is beneficial for bones and teeth.
Photo shows a polished Lime Calcite Freeform.
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|  | Mangano Calcite helps develop channelling and astral travelling abilities. It is an excellent complement to energy healing modalities e.g. Reiki. It heals inner child hurts and past abuse, bringing peace, hope and optimism. It aids study and the assimilation of information. It enhances general health and healing, particularly of bones, joints and the heart.
Photo shows Mangano Calcite on matrix.
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|  | Orange Calcite speeds up spiritual development and transforms ideas into action. It encourages a positive view of the Self and aids the development of independence and personality. It stimulates the metabolism, forties the immune system and is beneficial for bones and teeth.
Photo shows an Orange Calcite sphere. |
|  | Red Calcite increases the will to survive, motivation, determination and willpower. It facilitates the release of all fears, enabling all round growth and development. It reduces blocks on every level and is an excellent detoxifier. Red Calcite is beneficial for the genitals and reproductive organs. It aids healing of the hips, knees, ankles, legs and feet, bringing support, stability and strength in moving forward.
Photo shows an acid polished piece of Red Calcite. |
| ![Calcite Mineralogy]() | Calcite is named from the Greek chalix meaning Lime and has the chemistry: CaCO3 Calcium Carbonate. It belongs to the mineral class Carbonates, Calcite group. Calcite is one of the most common minerals on earth and is approximately 4% by weight of the Earth's crust. It forms in a variety of geological environments and in all three of the major rock classification types: Sedimentary as oolitic, fossiliferous and massive limestones, Metamorphic changing from Limestone to Marble through heat and pressure and Igneous as Carbonatite. In some cases, Calcite may be as much as 99% of the component minerals! Calcite has an amazing diversity of habit, as well as colour that may be white, colourless, yellow, orange, blue, pink, red, brown, green, black or grey.
Calcite is one of three Calcium Carbonate minerals, the other two being polymorphs (having the same chemistry but different crystal structures and symmetries) with Calcite. The common mineral Aragonite is orthorhombic, the very rare Vaterite is hexagonal and Calcite is trigonal. Calcite has numerous associated minerals that include Fluorite, Quartz, Barite, Sphalerite, Galena, Celestite, Sulphur, Gold, Copper, Emerald, Apatite, Biotite, Zeolites.
There are more than 300 crystal forms identified in Calcite and these forms can combine to produce thousands of different crystal variations, which are always trigonal or pseudo-hexagonal. The most common Calcite crystals are the scalenohedron, rhombohedron, hexagonal prism, and pinacoid. Calcite produces many twinning varieties with blocky chevrons, right-angled prisms, heart shapes or dipyramidal shapes. In addition, this mineral forms as massive, fibrous, concretionary, stalactitic, nodular, oolitic, stellate, dendritic, granular, layered, as well as phantoms, included crystals, colour varieties, pseudomorphs and unique associations.
One classic variety of Calcite is the scalenohedron crystal, known as Dogtooth because it forms a sharp point, resembling a dog's canine tooth. The best specimens are either colourless or an amber-orange colour.
Mexican Onyx (different to the Quartz variety) is another well-known form that is used frequently for ornamental carvings. It is distinguished easily through its fabulous colours of banded white, yellow, red and brown.
Iceland Spar, named after the country of its discovery in Basalt cavities, is a clear, colourless Calcite. It shows the classic cleaved form, and demonstrates the double refraction characteristic of Calcite. This phenomenon occurs because of Calcite's unique optical properties. Light rays entering the crystal are split into fast and slow beams, which exit at different angles due to their varying speeds. The result is that anything viewed through the crystal is seen as a double image, until the crystal is moved to the one direction where the light rays are both the same speed and then normal vision is resumed. Iceland Spar has been used in optical industries.
In addition, some Calcite varieties demonstrate the following characteristics
- fluorescence when light from an ultraviolet lamp reacts with the chemicals of a mineral and causes the mineral to glow
- hosphorescence when a mineral continues to glow after the light has been removed
- thermo luminescence when the mineral is heated it glows
- triboluminescence glowing when a mineral is struck or crushed
- effervescence (CO2 bubbles) when in contact with acid, even weak acids |
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