From Madagascar comes the raw material for these hand polished XXL Tumbled Stones.
The Labradorite stones are about 5 - 7cm in size; per packaging unit with 0.5kg (=VE) you get about 5 - 8 stones.
The uses of the Jumbos are manifold: They are used as hand charms or decorative home accessories, are used to lay a stone circle or as a massage stone.
The dark Labradorite belongs to the Feldspar group. The themes for which the dark labradorite is used in stone healing are reflection and truth, intuition, depth of feeling and mental gifts.
In the 18th century, the first Labradorites arrived in Europe after they were found on the Canadian Labrador Peninsula in 1770. The Czech missionary Father Adolf found the first pieces there when the Herrnhuter founded numerous settlements on the forest-covered peninsula in the Atlantic.
settlements on the forest-covered peninsula in the Atlantic. The mineral was given its name "Labradorite" in 1832 by the French mineralogist and professor François Bedaunt (1787 - 1850) because of its location on the Labrador Peninsula. Occasionally encountered spellings such as labardorite, labradoride, labradoriet, labradorite, labratorite or lapradorite are therefore incorrect.