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	Lapis Lazuli
		Lapis lazuli is a gemstone of the kind that might have come straight out of the Arabian Nights: a deep blue with golden inclusions of pyrites which shimmer like little stars.
		Lapis lazuli is an opaque rock that mainly consists of diopside and lazurite.
		Lapis lazuli is a versatile and popular gemstone which has shown extraordinary stability in the turbulent tides of fashion.
	www.gemstone.org /gem-by-gem/english/lapis.html (0 words)

	Lapis lazuli - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Lapis lazuli, also known as just lapis, is a stone with one of the longest traditions of being considered a gem, with a history stretching back to 5000 BC.
		The main component of lapis lazuli is lazurite (25% to 40%), a feldspathoid silicate mineral composed of sodium, aluminium, silicon, oxygen, sulfur, and chlorine.
		In ancient Egypt lapis lazuli was a favorite stone for amulets and ornaments such as scarabs; it was also used by the Assyrians and Babylonians for seals.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Lapis_lazuli (1464 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lapis lazuli
		Lapis lazuli is not a single mineral but an intergrowth lazurite with calcite, pyroxene, and commonly small grains of pyrite.
		It was formerly produced by grinding the rare mineral lapis lazuli and was...
		Lapis lazuli: Its royal blue color was a perfect contrast to the pure gold in King Tutankhamen's burial mask.
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	Lapis Lazuli
		Lapis lazuli is an opaque stone consisting mainly of Diopside and Lasurite.
		Lapis lazuli is also found in smaller amounts in Italy, Mongolia, the USA and Canada, in Myanmar and in Pakistan.
		Lapis lazuli is a highly appreciated stone suitable for many purposes, which shows remarkable stability ion the light of quickly changing fashion trends.
	www.stellarjewelry.com /lapis.htm (1004 words)

	Lapis Lazuli from Afghanistan
		Royal blue lapis lazuli, the gem variety of lazurite and one of the most beautiful opaque gemstones, is a sodium and aluminum mineral of considerable complexity.
		Lapis lazuli is one of the oldest of all gems, with a history stretching back some 7000 years or more.
		Lapis lazuli may occur in multi-kilogram sized pieces, but top-grade lapis of even 10–20 carats cut is rare.
	www.palagems.com /lapis_lazuli_bancroft.htm (0 words)

	Encyclopedia of Gemstones - Lapis Lazuli
		In addition to the sodalite minerals in lapis lazuli, small amounts of white calcite and of pyrite crystals are usually present.
		From the stone history: Lapis Lazuli with deep azure blue color, often flecked with golden pyrite inclusions, was treasured by ancient Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations and often worn by royalty.
		Lapis Lazuli was believed to be a sacred stone, buried with the dead to protect and guide them in the afterlife.
	www.all-that-gifts.com /se/lapis_lazuli.html (584 words)

	Lapis Lazuli (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lapis Lazuli is a beautiful opaque semi-precious gemstone which ranges in color from medium royal to dark blue.
		Lapis was recognized by the ancients as a symbol for ability, success and divine favor.
		Lapis lazuli is somewhat porous and should be protected from chemicals and solvents.
	www.all-necklaces.com /lapis_lazuli_history.html (245 words)

	Crystals, Gems, Gemstones: Lapis
		Lapis lazuli is a unique combination of darkness and light, its deep blue color sparkling with gold pyrite a symbol for a night sky alight with stars.
		I recommend that when lapis is used for this purpose in meditation, it should be placed on the third eye (between the other two), and joined by either rose quartz, aventurine, or amethyst.
		The lapis journey is one of going into our own mysteries and of releasing the illusions we have accepted as reality.
	www.rainbowcrystal.com /crystal/gems/lapis.html (288 words)

	WHAT-IS-LAPIS-LAZULI
		Lapis lazuli is an opaque gem stone that may range in color from brilliant, to medium royal, to dark blue.
		The most costly and precious form of lapis lazuli is mined in Afghanistan, having a rich uniform deep blue color, and little to no white calcite veining (which may diminish the value), as well as only a few flecks of glittering pyrite.
		Lapis, having only the hardness of 5 to 5.5 should be protected from rubbing and scratching against harder stones and surfaces, such as other jewelry within a jewelry box.
	www.emporia.edu /earthsci/amber/go340/students/haltom/whatisit.htm (408 words)

	Lapis Lazuli
		Lapis Lazuli was cherished thousands of years ago by the peoples of Mesopotamia (where the blue stone symbolized the heavens and was used to decorate the ceilings of temples), Persia, Greece and Rome.
		Lapis Lazuli is a compound of “Lapis,” the Latin word for stone, and the Arabian word, “Azul,” denoting the color blue.
		Lapis lazuli is an opaque stone consisting mainly of Diopside and Lazurite, and was created millions of years ago in the course of the metamorphic process of turning chalk into marble stone.
	www.canequest.com /lapis.asp (508 words)

	LAPIS LAZULI from the mine: Tiles - Gift Items - Pigment - Lapislazuli - Lapis Lazuli - Lazurite
		Lapis lazuli stone is extracted by the mining company Las Flores de los Andes S.A, who owns the biggest deposit of the South American Hemisphere.
		Lapis Design S.A. has an industrial production plant, which is combined with the experience in carving Lapis lazuli stones, and in manufacturing engineered stones, and the availability of raw LAPIS material from its mine in Chile.
		Lapis Lazuli has a history of more than five thousand years as jewerly, ornamental art and as a pigment.
	www.andesblue.cl /eng/default.asp (344 words)

	LAPIS LAZULI: Factsheet & Information Page - MINERALMINERS.COM
		Lapis lazuli is a rock composed of a mixture of several different minerals including lazurite, huaynite, sodalite, noselite, calcite and pyrite.
		Lapis lazuli is imitated by a number of methods typically involving the use of dyes on a variety of natural rocks and synthetic materials.
		Lapis lazuli was one of the stones in the 'Breastplate of Judgement' of Aaron, described in the Bible (Exodus: xxviii, 15-30).
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	Lapis lazuli: myths and facts
		Lapis lazuli shares with turquoise the distinction of being among the most prized of all gemstones of earlier civilizations.
		In South America, the Chilean deposit of lapis lazuli was used by ancient civilizations at least 1500 years B.C. Lapis powder was extensively used by Roman, Persian and Chinese women to paint their eyebrows.
		Lapis lazuli is the alternative to turquoise and ruby as birthstones for December.
	www.gemsbrokers.org /gemstone/gems_and_gemology/lapis_lazuli_myths.htm (224 words)

	GemRocks: Lapis Lazuli
		In pre-Middle Ages literature, lapis lazuli was usually referred to as sapphire (or its equivalent)-- e.g., in publications by Theophrastus and Pliny, the Elder.
		As early as the 6th century B.C., lapis lazuli from the Badakhshan mines was transported, chiefly by camel caravan, to China, India and Tibet, and later to Egypt, where it was fashioned into scarabs and amulets, and shortly thereafter it reached other Mediterranean countries.
		Lapis lazuli was ground to produce ultramarine pigment as early as the 11th century A.D. and was used by, for example, the famous "old masters" (Renaissance painters) inter alia.
	www.cst.cmich.edu /users/dietr1rv/lapis.htm (1983 words)

	Lapis Lazuli Silver Jewelry, Sterling Silver, Gold Fill
		The most prized Lapis Lazuli is royal blue, though it ranges in color from very dark navy blue to sky blue to green, with characteristic glittering golden specks.
		Lapis was a very important gemstone in ancient Babylonia and Egypt, the deep blue color was often associated with royalty and deity.
		Lapis is associated with the 6th Chakra, or 3rd Eye.
	www.luckygemstones.com /lapis-lazuli-jewelry-navy-blue-gems.htm (0 words)

	Lapis Lazuli
		Lapis lazuli is named from the Persian 'lashward' meaning blue, and its uniquely intense colour has been a source of delight for over 6000 years.
		Lapis Lazuli is a rock composed chiefly of the blue silicate mineral lazurite, together with calcite and brassy-coloured pyrite which are abundant in the poorer quality material.
		At Sar-i-Sang the lapis lazuli occurs as a zone of lenses and veins within white marble, and grades from deep to pale blue with some violet and greenish tints.
	www.afghan-network.net /Culture/lapis-lazuli.html (332 words)

	Lapis Lazuli
		Lapis Lazuli is actually used as a recipe of medicine in ancient Egypt.
		Lapis Lazuli that minced the scarab beetle or Horse's eye which were the powerful charms to remove an evil spirit.
		It is from the ruins having been discovered and much Lapis Lazuli that having been especially used for the coffin of the gold, or king's burial articles.
	www.suevematsu.com /lapis_lazuli.html (667 words)

	Lapis Lazuli
		Sacred to the Goddess Isis, Lapis Lazuli was prized by the Ancient Egyptians and holds the energy of a star-studded sky, limitless in its wisdom.
		Lapis lazuli is beneficial to the respiratory system, lungs, throat, nervous system, and the cleansing organs.
		Lapis lazuli is also well suited to those born during the The Moon of Cleansing - (20 Jan - 18 Feb).
	www.mysticmountainjewelry.com /lapis.htm (402 words)

	Lapis Lazuli Gemstone,Lapis Lazuli Beads,Wholesale Lapis Lazuli Beads,Lapis Lazuli Stone (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lapis Lazuli gemstone is a royal blue colored gemstone and also known as only “Lapis”.
		Lapis Lazuli gemstone is a mixture of different natural resources in which presence of sodium aluminium silicate is maximum.
		Lapis lazuli gemstone is very soft gemstone in nature that is why scratches and breaks are found easily.
	www.shivamimportsny.com /lapis-lazuli-gemstone.html (97 words)

	Origin of Lapis Lazuli (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Crowfoot Payne 1968 (Discussion and list of all lapis lazuli finds in Egypt from the beginning to the Old Kingdom.
		The author demonstrates that lapis lazuli was used from Naqada II (around 3500 BC), with a gap of attestations from the Second to the early Fourth Dynasty.
		Bavay 1997 (discussion of lapis lazuli in predynastic Egypt, discussion of the trade routes, occurrences in tombs - mainly burials of women, because lapis lazuli is often part of jewellery - and discussion of the context of the finds, full attestation list, in French, with a short English summary)
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /foreignrelations/lapislazuli.html (147 words)

	Lapis Lazuli Beaded Necklace (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Necklace is 20 inches long and has 57 Lapis Lazuli beads of 6mm and 57 3mm beads and hook clasp of 14k Gold.
		Lapis Lazuli is a blue stone composed of many minerals such as Lazurite-blue, Pyrite-gold color and Calcite-white.
		Lapis was used in cosmetics by the Chinese, and as a pigment in painting, by the Russians and Greeks.
	angora.cl /lapis-lazuli-beads.htm (203 words)

	Lapis Lazuli - Harmonizing Heart and Mind - Information and Online Ordering
		Lapis Lazuli empowers you to envision and then live your dreams with vitality and a fearless, adventuresome spirit.
		The Lapis then helps these points achieve equilibrium—points with excess magnetic energy are drained, and deficient points are filled with Lapis energy until they can regain their own strength.
		Lapis occurs in a wide continuum of quality, and the very finest quality is quite rare.
	www.gemisphere.com /gemstoneMissions/lap_mission.htm (789 words)

	Lapis Lazuli Necklace; Harmonizing Heart and Mind - Gemstones for Mental and Intuitive Expansion and Clarity
		The Lapis then helps these points achieve equilibrium: points with excess magnetic energy are drained, and deficient points are filled with Lapis energy until they can regain their own strength.
		The energy of Lapis and its royal blue color impresses the nerve in a way that reminds the brain of a primordial memory: it is a memory of that which links you to your divine source.
		Lapis Lazuli spheres are placed over the brow chakra to produce a heightened state of awareness, in which the answers to important questions can be learned.
	www.gemstonetherapy.com /gem_summaries/lapis_lazuli_SUM.htm (655 words)

	Lapis Lazuli... - WetCanvas!
		Lapis lazuli is also available from Sinopia in San Francisco.
		It is indistinguishable from genuine ultramarine blue-- that is, ground lapis lazuli-- without the aid of a microscope.
		Other pieces of lapis in my collection (I use this stuff for lapidary, it'd be insane to grind it into pigment) have less of a reddish cast and are closer to Doak's Yves Klein Blue or even his Fra Angelico Blue, both of which I believe are cobalt based colors.
	www.wetcanvas.com /forums/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=293988 (0 words)

	Lapiz Lazuli - discounts on lapis lazuli jewellery and gifts
		Ground lapis was the secret of the blue in ultramarine, the pigment which painters used to paint the sea and the sky until the nineteenth century.
		Lapis is a dark blue microcrystalline rock composed primarily of the mineral lazurite.
		Lapis lazuli is somewhat porous and should be protected from chemicals and solvents.
	www.jewellers.net /lapis_lazuli.htm (0 words)

	THE LAPIS LAZULI OF THE ANCIENT WORLD - The New York Review of Books
		I believe that Góngora was using the word in its ancient, classical sense of "lapis lazuli." (See, for instance, A. Bailly, Dictionnaire Grec Français [Paris, 1950], which defines $$$ as "lapis lazuli.") The aptness of lapis lazuli (cf.
		It has been noted that the word sapphiros was still employed in the sense of "lapis lazuli" in the middle of the sixteenth century by the mining engineer Agricola (cf.
		I want to thank Professor Schafer for pointing out to me that the sapphire is the lapis lazuli of the ancient world.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/10780 (652 words)

	Lapis Lazuli Resource - Autumn Gallery Handmade Lapis Lazuli Jewelry
		Currently the blue pigment derived from Lapis lazuli is still applied especially for renovations, restorations and for those who love historical colors.
		It was created millions of years ago in the course of metamorphosis process turning chalk into marble stone.
		When unpolished, Lapis lazuli seems dull and dark blue, often with golden inclusions and whitish veins from marble.
	www.autumngallery.net /lapislazuli.html (0 words)

	Lapis Lazuli
		Lapis Lazuli carries a complete range of products for both soft and hard lenses.
		That is the reason why Lapis Lazuli has been reducing the amount of chemical additives in the lens fluids and eye drops as well as reducing the strength of these additives, to obtain a degree of zero toxicity.
		In that way Lapis Lazuli endeavours to put a stop to harmful agents that may have a negative impact on the comfort of wearing contact lenses or could cause damage to the eye in the long term.
	www.lapislazuli.nl /lapis/en (186 words)

	Natural Mineral Pigments: Lazurite (Lapis Lazuli)
		Lapis lazuli or lapis for short is mostly lazurite but commonly contains pyrite, calcite and other minerals.
		) are always present in lapis and their gold yellow color distinguishes lapis from a similar mineral, sodalite, and the synthetic pigment, ultramarine.
		History: Lapis lazuli has been mined for centuries from a location still in use today in the mountain valley of Kokcha, Afghanistan.
	www.iconofile.com /pigments_lazurite.asp (1304 words)

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