M521 - Sodium aluminum silicate with chlorine, 5.5 - 6 hardness.

Sodalite is an aluminum silicate with chlorine. Hardness 5.5 to 6. Sodalite is a rich royal blue mineral, widely enjoyed as an ornamental gemstone. Because of its hardness and the stones ability to take a good polish, sodalite is used in making many jewelry items as well as in stone carvings, stone eggs and spheres, and beads. Discovered in 1811 in the Ilimaussaq intruseve complex in Greenland, sodalite did not become important as an ornamental stone until around 1891 when huge deposites of fine material were discovered in Ontario, Canada.

Well known for its blue color, sodalite may also be grey, yellow, green, or pink and is often mottled with white veins or patches. Sodalite is rarely found in crystal form is usually found in massive forms. Occuring typically in massive form, sodalite is found as vein fillings in plutonic igneous rocks such as nepheline syenites. Other minerals associated with sodalite are nephelive, titanian andradite, aegirine, microcline, albite, calcite, sanidine, fluorite, baryte, and ankerite.

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