Lapis-lazuli 83kg from Afghanistan

It is enormous. The most beautiful Lapis Lazuli come from the province of Badakhshan in northern Afghanistan. In a narrow valley, covered with snow most of the year, mines have been operating for 6000 years! The Egyptians appreciated this blue stone, as evidenced by the many blue statues and pearls that were found in the tombs of important figures. And all of them, like this one, came from the Afghan mountains. Lapis Lazuli is a stone made of 14 different minerals, the main one being the blue Lazurite.
The high-quality stones have an intense and uniform blue color, without traces of white veins or brown spots. To do this, stones are usually cut in jewelry; the more pure and vibrant the color, the more the stone is considered precious. A stone the size of this one is never of an immaculate blue without vein of Calcite or golden points of Pyrite... But this is what makes his personality. Because it is very rare to find a crystal of 83Kg.