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Lapis Lazuli - Afghanistan
March 30 , 2025
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- Lapis lazuli is a vividly blue rock, sometimes with streaks of gold and used as a semi-precious gemstone.
- It gets its colour from the presence of an unusual mineral called lazurite (25-40%).
- Its blueness depends on the amount and structure of sulphur in this mineral.
- Lapis lazuli has been found in many countries so far, including Chile, Russia, and the US.
- But the highest quality of rock comes from Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, where people have been mining it for more than 6,000 years.
- The rock gets its name from two languages: lapis is the Latin for ‘stone’ whereas ‘lazuli’ comes from the Persian word lazhward, meaning ‘blue’.
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