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Charoite Cube on Slice

The Crystal and Mineral Vault

Charoite: The Purple Mineral That Exists Nowhere Else on Earth

by Laura Konst
Charoite is one of the rarest minerals on Earth, found in a single location along the Chara River in Siberia, Russia. Formed through the metasomatic alteration of limestone by alkaline fluids, its signature swirling violet and lavender patterns are the result of a complex intergrowth of minerals that occurred deep within the Earth's crust. There is truly nothing else quite like it.