Howlite is composed of hydrous calcium borate and is opaque. Howlite is generally white to cream with fine grey or black veining. It often forms in nodules which resemble cauliflower heads. Howlite is used for cabochons, decorative objects, beads, small carvings or jewelry components.

Howlite is also known by the names White Buffalo, Sacred Buffalo, Lapis Howlite, White Turquoise, Silico Boro Calcite and Kaolinite. It was named after the 19^th century mineralogist Henry How who first discovered it in Nova Scotia.

The most notable location of Howlite is Canada, specifically in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and New Brunswick. But it can also be found in the USA, Russia, Germany, Mexico, Namibia, Pakistan, and Turkey.

Howlite is frequently dyed in such colors as red, green, blue, purple etc. The dyeing doesn’t affect the healing properties of howlite. ​Some traders dye howlite and sell it as turquoise or other semiprecious crystals. 

Howlite balances calcium levels in the body. It aids teeth, bones and soft tissue. Helpful in cases of osteoporosis.

It can help cure insomnia when you use it as a gem elixir before going to bed. It can also act as a pain reliever for cramps and other forms of physical pains.

It has been known to aid in the treatment of anxiety disorders and other stress-related illnesses.

Just like Celestite, this stone is good for the endocrine and circulatory system. It can also boost your skin health!

It’s a great memory enhancer and mood stabilizer. It can also improve your learning abilities, especially if you’re suffering from ADHD.

Anyolite is the name used to describe the naturally occurring combination of Green Zoisite with deep red Ruby stone. The largest deposits of the lovely combination of Ruby Zoisite are in India, but it is also found in Zambia Africa. The Zoisite within the stone is primarily a clear medium green, and it combines well with the deep magenta-red of the ruby in the stone. This mineral has masses of prismatic crystals that combine the physical properties of zoisite and ruby. Its zoisite composition becomes the base while its ruby properties are scattered throughout the structure.

Anyolite improves circulation and quality of the blood, and heart disorders. It aids in recovery from disorders associated with diminished physical vitality. Anyolite has a number of very helpful healing attributes, including helping to increase fertility. They are known as healing crystals that will particularly help cancer sufferers. These stones are said to aid you if you have had chemotherapy or radiation treatment. Ruby in Zoisite assists those with adrenal fatigue or fainting spells, and with immune problems including chronic fatigue syndrome.

This will aid problems within the physical heart, stimulate an inactive thyroid, and bring general healing within the body.

Leif Eriksson and other Viking explorers who ventured far out into the Atlantic Ocean, away from any coastline that would help determine position, used thin pieces of Iolite as the world’s first polarizing filter. Looking through an Iolite lens, they could determine the exact location of the sun and navigate safely to the New World and back. [ICGA]

A property called pleochroism is very pronounced in Iolite, producing different colors when the stone is seen through different positions. Overall, Iolite appears as violet-blue or indigo, but in different positions may shift to a yellow-gray or honey color, and even to a clear light blue. It is also referred to as “Water Sapphire” or Dichroite. Iolite’s name comes from the Greek ios, meaning violet, and is the gem version of the mineral Cordierite.

Iolite is a magnesium aluminium silicate and appears as grey, pale to dark blue, violet and colourless crystals. Iolite exhibits dichroism (an ability to change colour when viewed from different angles). It can show as three different colour shades in the same stone.
The major sources of the gemstone come from Sri Lanka, India, Madagascar and Myanmar.

Iolite is helpful in improving your eyesight. It will also help if you are directionally challenged. Use it when you are trying to find your way. Iolite deflects the electromagnetic waves from cell phone, tvs and computers. If you work with these items everyday keep iolite on your person constantly. It stimulates the memory and assists with sleep imbalances.

Iolite creates a strong constitution, ridding the body of fatty deposits. It diminishes the effect of alcohol and supports detoxification and regeneration of the liver. Treats malaria and fevers, and kills bacteria. Iolite aids the pituitary, sinuses and respiratory system. Alleviates migraines.

Iolite is credited with supporting a stronger than normal constitution and is said to enable one to consume alcohol without exhibiting the effects, promotes detoxification, and improves degenerated conditions of the liver. It also reduces fatty deposits in the body. [Melody, 336][Hall, 148]

Iolite is used in regulating digestion, and enhances hair and nail growth. [Megemont, 96]

Iolite strengthens the nerves, helps with paralysis and numb limbs, and tolerating pain. [Gienger, 32] It has been used to treat malaria and other fever-producing disorders. [Melody, 336]

Iolite may assist in healing of the eyes, migraines and headaches, disorientation and dizziness, and Meniere’s disease. It also stimulates memory, and prevents insomnia, nightmares or sleep disturbances. [Eason, 377][Ahsian, 207]

Sapphire is a variety of Corundum, an aluminum oxide mineral that forms in prismatic tabular, bipyramidal or rhombohedral crystals, as well as granular or massive habits, and may be transparent to opaque.

Blue is considered Sapphire’s “true” color and the one most often recognized, though Sapphire does form in a diversity of colors (listed below), and will have the color added to its name (for example: Green Sapphire, Yellow Sapphire). Additional mineral compounds forming with aluminum oxide are responsible for the different coloration, and in the case of Blue Sapphire, iron and titanium provide its heavenly hues. With the exception of Red Corundum, which is Ruby, all other colors of Corundum are Sapphires. [Mella, 103][Simmons, 339]

Blue Sapphire ranges in hue from pale to deep azure or dark royal blue, to indigo, with the most highly desired color being the velvety cornflower blue, also called Kashmir or bleu de roi. The name Sapphire is derived from the Latin sapphirus, Greek sappheiros, and Sanskrit sanipryam, meaning “blue stone.” Recent research indicates what we know today as Lapis Lazuli was also referred to as Sapphire in the ancient world, and much of the Sapphire described in the Bible and other texts would have actually been Lapis Lazuli. [Fernie, 96, 102, 104][Megemont, 162][Mella, 21, 37, 103][Eason, 247]

Sapphire is a variety of the mineral corundum. It is a precious gemstone. Sapphire is a 5th and a 45th Anniversary gemstone.

Sapphire treats blood disorders, combatting excessive bleeding and strengthening the walls of the veins. It is used for cellular disorders, regulates the glands and calms overactive body systems.

Blue Sapphire assists in healing all parts of the body and soothes insomnia. Used externally or as an elixir, Sapphire water is considered a good purifier and should be used as the seasons change. [Melody, 585][Megemont, 163]

Long used as a curative for eye infections and improving eyesight, Blue Sapphire is also used to relieve headaches, fever, nosebleeds, and issues of the ears, including hearing, infection, inner-ear imbalances and vertigo. [Megemont, 163][Ahsian, 340][Eason, 247]

Blue Sapphire is beneficial to the thyroid, swollen glands and in treating problems related to speech and communication. It is also considered helpful to the nervous system, and in treating blood disorders, dementia, and degenerative diseases. [Hall, 253][Eason, 247][Gienger, 77]

Tridacna is the most white substance in the world, it is also a rare organic gemstone. It’s made from a large clam shell and is known for looking like white porcelain.

Tridacna Shell – heals, protects and offers calming properties. Wearing tridacna jewelry will enhance the magnetic field of human body

Kyanite is an aluminum silicate mineral, often occurring as long, striated bladed crystals that may be transparent or translucent with a pearly sheen. The most common colors in metaphysical use are blue streaked with white, indigo, green, and black, though Kyanite may occur in white, gray, pink, yellow, and most recently discovered orange. Kyanite comes from the Greek work, kuanos or kyanos, meaning “deep blue,” and was once commonly called Disthene, which means “two strengths.” It is also known as Rhaeticide and Cyanite. Its most identifiable feature is its anisotropism, the ability to cleave perfectly in two directions with two distinctly different hardnesses on the perpendicular axes. [Simmons, 223][Wikipedia.org]

Kyanite is valuable in the industrial world for heat resistance, used in high refractory porcelain, refractory bricks, mortars, kiln furniture and foundry molds, in the auto and railroad industries for brake shoes, grinding wheels and cutting disks, and in the standard porcelain of dentures, sinks and bathroom fixtures. Kyanite crystals that are highly transparent and attractive in color can be cut into cabochon and faceted gemstones, and are considered to be “exotic” gems. [Geology.com]

Like Citrine, Kyanite is one of the two minerals on the planet that neither accumulates nor retains negative energy, and therefore never needs cleansing.

Kyanite provides a balancing of the yin-yang energies, dispelling blockages and moving energy from the ethereal plane through the physical body. It can be used during radionic analysis, and is a beneficial stone to place between the heart and navel chakras during the “lay-on-of-stones” healing activities. [Melody, 364]

Kyanite helps nerves and tissues reestablish pathways through and around intrusive traumas, such as broken bones, surgery and other severe injury. It is said to be a natural pain reliever. It also creates new neural pathways to heal the brain after head trauma, seizure or stroke. [Ahsian, 225] It is particularly supportive of the motor responses and dexterity of the body, and in regaining speech. [Gienger, 34][Hall, 168][Eason, 225]

Kyanite can be used in the treatment of disorders associated with the muscular and urogenital system, adrenal glands, throat, thyroid and parathyroid. [Melody, 364][Hall, 167] It alleviates hoarseness, and problems of the larynx. [Gienger, 34]

Chrysoberyl is a beryllium aluminium oxide mineral that belongs to the oxide and hydroxide class of minerals. appears as trilling or twinned hexagonal crystals. Despite the similarity of their names, chrysoberyl and beryl are two completely different gemstones.

​The three main varieties of chrysoberyl are:

• Chrysoberyl  is a yellow-to-green transparent to translucent crystal.
• Alexandrite is one of the rare color change crystals and is translucent
• Cymophane (cat’s eye)  is fibrous and translucent. This is the only stone that can just be called cats eye, all other cats eye crystals must have the name of the crystal included such as cat’s eye tourmaline or cat’s eye quartz or even cat’s eye selenite.

​​Yellow-green chrysoberyl was referred to as “chrysolite” during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, which caused confusion since that name has also been used for the mineral olivine/peridot, that name is no longer used.

Chrysoberyl helps to highlight the cause of dis-ease. It supports self-healing. Chrysoberyl balances adrenaline and cholesterol, and fortifies the chest and liver.

When chrysoberyl is used with other crystals it will highlight the cause of a disease. This stone supports self healing, balances the adrenal glands and balances the cholesterol levels in the body. Chrysoberyl enhances the healing of chest and liver complaints. This stone is helpful in reducing the physical side effects of being paralyzed. Working well with the digestive system, chrysoberyl will settle stomach problems, heal the liver, reduce skin problems and allergies relating to this system.