Chakra
Root
Crystals associated with the Root chakra
Traditions associate different crystals, and sometimes they disagree. Each crystal shows the tradition that makes the association; its sources are on the crystal page.
Atlantisite
A natural mix of green serpentine and purple stichtite, from a single hill in Tasmania.
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Black Tourmaline
Schorl, the most common tourmaline in nature: black, opaque and grooved along its length. Its name comes from a German village that has since changed its own name.
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Carnelian
Orange-red chalcedony colored by iron oxides. The Romans loved it for seals, because hot wax doesn't stick to it.
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Hematite
An iron mineral that looks like a silver-black mirror, yet its name means "blood". Scratch it on porcelain and it will explain why.
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Larvikite
A dark igneous rock from Norway whose feldspar crystals flash silvery blue.
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Polychrome Jasper
Jasper from Madagascar in bands of red, orange, yellow and greyish green, like a small desert landscape. Reportedly found in 2006, while people were looking for a different jasper.
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Rainbow Moonstone with Black Tourmaline
A white stone with a blue glow and black specks. Its name promises two things, and both are more complicated than they sound.
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Red Jasper
Opaque quartz colored red by iron, with a Hebrew name that made it all the way to Europe, and perhaps two places in the breastplate.
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Rose Quartz
Quartz in a soft shade of pink, colored by microscopic mineral fibers. Also known as the "love stone".
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Ruby in Zoisite
A green rock from Tanzania with real ruby crystals inside. Someone once even tried to value one at £11 million.
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Silver Sheen Obsidian
Natural glass from a volcano, with a silver sheen that comes and goes as you turn it. Sharp enough for surgeons to use.
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Smoky Quartz
Brown, transparent quartz colored by natural radiation. In 12th-century China it was made into sunglasses for judges.
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Sunstone
An orange feldspar that glitters from within, thanks to tiny plates of copper or hematite. Legend says it fell from the sun.
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Tiger's Eye
Golden quartz with a silky shine that moves as the stone moves. For over a century everyone explained how it forms, until in 2003 someone looked under a microscope and challenged the explanation.
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Wild Horse
A trade name for white magnesite with reddish brown hematite, from one place in Arizona. It is sometimes called turquoise, but there is no turquoise in it.
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