Kyanite
- Species
- Kyanite
- Crystal system
- Triclinic
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 4–7 (direction-dependent)
- Chemistry
- Al₂SiO₅
- Dimensions
- 38 × 10 × 10 cm (15.0 × 3.9 × 3.9 in)
- Weight
- 2.5 kg (5.5 lb)
- Grade
- Museum Grade
- Treatment
- 100% Natural · Untreated · No Resin Injection
The whole form is built from vertically aligned kyanite blades, cornflower to grey-blue, their long faces carrying a silky-to-pearly sheen that makes the blue flow as you move around the piece. Color deepens and pales in horizontal bands. Milky quartz emerges through the lower midsection like a snowline on the tower.
Kyanite crystallizes under the pressure of colliding continents, and it looks the part: dense, parallel blue blades compressed into a single vertical form. This 38-centimeter specimen stands like a miniature mountain of blue schist — a tower the earth built, not carved.
Why collectors want this
Vertical proportion this extreme is rare in mineral specimens — most sit wide; this one stands tall. Thirty-eight centimeters of naturally aligned blue, no resin stabilization, with a luster that animates under any moving light: it is a statement of height in a category dominated by mass.
Living with it
The base can be exchanged to suit your setting on request. One care rule matters: kyanite splits easily along its length and its hardness varies by direction — never apply sideways force to the blades, and lift the piece fully supported from below.
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