Lapis lazuli, also known as lazurite, is actually a mix of several minerals, including lazurite, calcite, and sodalite with deposits of pyrite. Fine lapis often has violet overtones, the most valuable having a dark blue, uniform color with no white spots. Lapis is relatively inexpensive, and usually sells for $10 per carat or less.

Lapis was very precious in the ancient world and in some places was even equated with gold. Powdered lapis was used in making the intense blue pigment known as ultramarine by artists such as Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.

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