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Lazulite

Phosphate mineral, a primary magnesium and aluminum phosphate [MgAl2 (PO4)2(OH)2], that often happens as blue, glassy crystals, grains, or masses in granite pegmatites, aluminous metamorphic rocks and quartzites, and quartz veins. It's present in Werfen, Austria; Västarå, Sweden; Mocalno, Calif., U.S.; and Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Lazulite (from German Lazurstein, “blue stone”) could also be distinguished from lapis lazuli by the presence of cleavage planes. Although lazulite is most often opaque or subtranslucent, clear granular material has been reduce en cabochon (with rounded, convex, polished surface) for gems. Iron commonly substitutes for a number of the magnesium within the crystal structure; in nature there is a full chemical variation, referred to as a strong-resolution series, between pure lazulite, which accommodates no iron, and pure scorzalite, which accommodates no magnesium but is similar to lazulite in physical properties.