PAPAGOITE and SHATTUCKITE

PAPAGOITE specimens are even more rare and harder to find than AJOITE, although they come out of the same mine in Messina (Musina) in the northern province of Limpopo in South Africa. PAPAGOITE, like AJOITE and SHATTUCKITE, are spectacular inclusions of vibrant blue copper silicate minerals in quartz crystals.

PAPAGOITE can often be found in the same crystal as AJOITE and Hematite, and sometimes will have inclusions of Native Copper. It can also occur as massive solid isolated lumps. PAPAGOITE's colour is usually dark sky- blue in crystals and lighter sky-blue in massive veins.

Although PAPAGOITE is still being mined at the New Cornelia Mine in the Ajo District of Arizona, USA., the much sort after Messina specimens are now virtually impossible to obtain, as the Messina copper mine was officially closed in 1992, due to extremely dangerous mining conditions.

SHATTUCKITE, like other secondary copper minerals, has an extremely brilliant colour. It is a very deep sky blue and can either grow in thin prismatic cystals or in sprays of radial crystal clusters inside a quartz crystals. It is a relatively rare silicate mineral which was first discovered in the Shattuck Mine of Bisbee, Arizona.

PAPAGOITE was named after the Papago Indian tribe and has been sort after and used by healers for clearing and protecting the aura and for opening the Third Eye and Throat chakras.

Healers believe a combination of PAPAGOITE and AJOITE will create a protective bubble around the aura that keeps you safe no matter where you may be, it will also enables you to remain open spiritually.