Orange Kyanite Natural Necklace

One of two crystals that clear themselves.

Kyanite grows in long bladed crystals, and it has a property almost unique among minerals: its hardness changes depending on which direction you scratch it. Along the blade it's soft enough to mark with a knife; across it, hard enough to resist steel. Mineralogists call it disthene — two strengths.

The blue comes from titanium, and the best material — deep, almost sapphire — comes from Nepal and Brazil. It forms under high pressure in metamorphic rock, which is to say it was made by being squeezed.

Kyanite is worked with for alignment and for clear speech, and it's one of the few stones understood not to hold onto anything — like selenite, it doesn't need cleansing. It sits with the throat and third eye.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast.