A powerful healing stone, which activates the heart chakra and brings attunement with our higher selves. Helping us to live within the moment, dioptase allows us to forgive ourselves and others. It allows us to embrace the totality of self and find peace. Stimulating the memories of past lives, it gives us understanding of our spiritual path, and a remembrance that we are already "perfect in becoming," and allows us to see the wealth that we have access to.

Dioptase, which is composed of Hydrated Copper Silicated, is classified as a cyclosilicate mineral, it has a vivid blue-green coloration, which makes it very popular with mineral collectors. Although it is sometimes used as a gemstone, its cleavage is too marked, and it is not hard enough to be widely accepted for this purpose. It produces good rhombohedral crystals with a high vitreous luster — these may be transparent or translucent. Dioptase also occurs in massive and encrusted forms, often in association with calcite, cerussite, chrysocolla, dolomite, limonite, and other copper based materials.