Location: Russia, Lake Baikal Region
Ranges in color from a cotton candy lavender to lilac to purple with patterns of swirls, feathers, and needles. May also contain patches or stars of black, orange or green. Rich in texture, some charoite can appear to gleam or shimmer.

Location: Bancroft, Ontario, and Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, in Canada; and Litchfield, Maine, and Magnet Cove, Arkansas, in the USA.

Hardness: 5.5-6
Sodalite is a rich royal blue mineral widely enjoyed as an ornamental gemstone. Although massive sodalite samples are opaque, crystals are usually transparent to translucent. Sodalite is a member of the sodalite group and—together with hauyne, nosean, and lazurite—is a common constituent of lapis lazuli.