Angelite Tumbled Stone VG45

• Material: Angelite
• Product Type: Tumbled Stone
• Quantity: Set of 40-50 Stones

What Makes the Angelite Tumbled Stone Special?

Angelite is recognized for its soft sky blue hue with occasional white veining, creating a visually calming and elegant appearance. Each crystal tumbled stone is carefully polished to preserve its delicate color and texture, ensuring consistency across the wholesale set. The tumbled shape enhances its visual harmony, allowing light to reflect evenly across the polished surface. Its compact size makes it versatile for personal collections, retail displays, and decorative arrangements.

1. History

Angelite is mineralogically anhydrite, or anhydrous calcium sulphate (CaSO4), which crystallises in the orthorhombic system with three directions of perfect cleavage; "angelite" is a trade name popularised from the late 1980s for the soft light-blue form of anhydrite. One important property is that when exposed to water, anhydrite readily transforms to the more commonly occurring gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O) by absorbing water, a transformation that is reversible by heating to around 200 °C, so moisture control matters in storage and use.

2. Origin

Angelite's main source is Peru, with further occurrences in Mexico, Poland, Libya and Germany; anhydrite occurs in evaporite settings and hydrothermal veins, commonly associated with calcite, halite and sulfides such as pyrite, and distinctly developed crystals are somewhat rare, the mineral usually appearing as cleavage masses. This item is a tumbled stone; the product page lists the material as Angelite, the product type as Tumbled Stone and the quantity as a set of 40-50 stones, showing soft sky-blue hues with occasional white veining for a visually calming and elegant appearance.

3. Usage

The product page notes that each crystal tumbled stone is carefully polished to preserve its delicate colour and texture, ensuring consistency across the wholesale set, and that the tumbled shape enhances its visual harmony, allowing light to reflect evenly across the polished surface, while its compact size makes it versatile for personal collections, retail displays and decorative arrangements. Anhydrite has a Mohs hardness of only about 3.5 and converts to gypsum when exposed to water, so prolonged soaking and damp conditions, knocks and scratches should be avoided and a dry cloth or soft brush used for cleaning.

4. Benefits & Suitable For

In common crystal usage, angelite is regarded as a very gentle, soothing stone, believed to calm anxiety, support sincere communication and bring a tranquil spiritual atmosphere, so it is often used in meditation and emotional healing practice; it suits emotionally sensitive people who want quiet and inner peace, and it also makes a caring gift. For shops and wholesalers, its soft blue tone is appealing and recognisable, but display and care notes should remind customers to keep it dry, making it a speciality stone that benefits from good guidance.