Shungite | Your Ultimate Guide + Healing Properties
Several years ago, Shungite came out on the new-age stone-lovers scene (around 2013-ish) and made quite a big splash.
I’m not sure why it suddenly became so popular. Still, it’s not usually listed in the older, more popular crystal property books, so people are often left wondering and asking me many questions about it.
Numerous web articles out there make lots of unfounded claims, so I felt the need to get this blog post out there finally.
Raw Shungite Stone. By Amrith.de (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
What is this stone?
Estimated to be about 2 BILLION years old, shungite gets its name from its discovery deposit site near the Shun’ga village in Karelia, Russia, and some say it can be up to 98% pure carbon. That’s quite pure.
Location of Shun’ga village, Karelia, Russia. Credit: Google Maps.
Most geologists now agree that the shungite deposit was created by layers upon layers of ancient organic remains, however … Read More