DIANITE

A blue amphibole-rich rock composed mainly by potassicrichterite and marketed as an imitation jade or nephrite. Not to be confused with a much older name Dianite given by F. von Kobell to a mineral later identified as Columbite.
Named for the late Diana, Princess of Wales
Dianite was found in 1997 in exactly the same place as anothe famous Russian mineral,
charoite in the Murun Mountains in Yakutia, to the north from Baikal lake .
This stone became popular almost at once mostly because of its unique blue color,
which could be of all shades of blue from light to dark. Dianite often has patterns that resemble clouds, spheres from dianite look like mysterious distant planets. Its Structure is similar to one of nephrite dianite is in fact an amphibole, that is why it is often called blue nephrite or
Siberian blue jade, though, as scientists say, this is not a proper name for this mineral.

DIANITE Siberian blue jade £11.00