Although quartz can occur in a wide range of colours, blue coloured quartz is surprisingly quite rare. The colouration is due to inclusions of magnesioriebeckite or crocidolite, dumortierite or tourmaline within the quartz. There is a separation to make when stones like quartz with inclusions like Dumortierite become so saturated with the inclusion they are more inclusion than base material. Hence Blue Quartz can be quartz with some Dumortierite and Dumortierite has a little quartz included.
Blue Quartz is a calming stone which also protects from negativity. It has all the properties of Quartz, but also additional properties associated with the colour blue, calmness and tranquillity.
It is associated with the throat chakra which is believed to assist in communication. Although, it can assist in balancing all chakras It is also a great for protecting your aura and enhancing psychic abilities. It absorbs all negative energy of all kinds including radiation and electromagnetic smog.
Alternative therapy healers use Blue Quartz to treat the lungs, heart and spleen It is said to stabilise the metabolic process and to strengthen the immune system. It is believed to be especially useful for treating blood clots that are caught in the lungs.
