Friday's Rock! Kyanite

I am getting ready to head back to Japan and have been packing a ton of minerals to take with me. One of those minerals is Kyanite. 

Kyanite is a beautiful, easy to identify mineral. The long, blue blades that kyanite produces can't be mistaken for any other mineral. It's really stunning in person and makes for awesome display specimens.

I picked this specimen up out in Quartzite last month for ridiculously cheap. Think about it now bums me out that iI have to wait another year to buy from that dealer again.

I still have a little bit of cleaning to do before we sell this piece. I need to clean off the yellowish mud carefully because sometimes the blades will come off with the mud.

A side note, when cleaning most of the time I only use soap and water. I have used acids and harsher chemicals on other crystals, but that usually requires a lot of time and care, so these days if it doesn't clean up with soap, waters toothbrush and pick, then it isn't getting cleaned up by me.

Another nice thing about kyanite is specimens are readily available and fairly cheap. Despite that, they are still a prized mineral for every collection.

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