{"id":18560,"date":"2024-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/product\/lepidoliet-hand-geslepen-stenen-madagaskar\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:55:48","slug":"6535-lepidolite-hand-stones","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/en\/product\/6535-lepidolite-hand-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Lepidolite Handstones"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lepidolite Handstones from Madagascar<\/h2>\n<p><h3>Lepidolite<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/en\/type\/lepidolite\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lepidolite<\/a> is a purple to pink shimmering mica, rich in lithium. The mineral is often found in pegmatites along with other lithium-containing minerals such as tourmaline and spodumene. Lepidolite has a characteristic luster and flaky texture, typical of mica.<\/p>\n<p>Major deposits include Brazil, Zimbabwe, the United States and the Czech Republic. Its chemical formula is K(Li,Al)\u2083(Si,Al)\u2084O\u2081\u2080(F,OH)\u2082. The hardness is between 2.5 and 4 on the Mohs scale.<\/p>\n<p>Well-known varieties are purple lepidolite and pink lepidolite, depending on colour intensity and inclusions.<\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Sources: <\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindat.org\/min-2380.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindat.org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gemdat.org\/gem-2380.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gemdat.org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lepidolite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia - Lepidolite<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<br \/>\n<h3>Hand stones<\/h3>\n<p>Hand stones are our largest, tumbled and smoothly polished (precious) stones that often sit very well in the hand, which immediately explains the name. Drummed, this size is also called a palm stone or jumbo stone. Often these stones are extra polished or ground after tumbling for a beautiful end result. Despite this consistency, it remains a natural product, so variations in shape, colour and pattern can always occur. This can vary from one type of stone to another.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, handstones have a size between 4 \u00d7 3 \u00d7 2 cm and 6 \u00d7 5 \u00d7 3 cm. Almost all our handstones come from Madagascar, where they are carefully selected and processed. The product photos give a good impression of what to expect. Hand stones are sold per 100 gr (1x), with a minimum order of 500 gr (5x).<\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lepidolite Handstones from Madagascar<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":52316,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"soort":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1042],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18560","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-handstenen","7":"pa_herkomst-madagaskar","8":"pa_soort-lepidoliet","9":"pa_verkoopeenheid-per-100-gr","10":"pa_vorm-getrommeld","11":"pa_vorm-handsteen","12":"desktop-align-center","13":"tablet-align-center","14":"mobile-align-center","15":"ast-product-gallery-layout-horizontal-slider","16":"ast-product-tabs-layout-horizontal","18":"first","19":"instock","20":"taxable","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/18560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"soort","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/soort?post=18560"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=18560"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=18560"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruschmineralen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=18560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}