As a mineral, Labradorite gets its name from where it is mainly quarried: the Labrador peninsula in Canada. It is mined in several other locations in the world, like Madagascar, Mexico, Norway or Russia and it is classified as a plagioclase feldspar, a hard crystalline mineral of an undistinguished gray rock color with a faint bluish hue.
In Labrador, they say that long time ago, stars were trapped in these grey, dull stones. For aeons they slept inside their solid shells, until a mythical hunter came and struck some of the frozen stones with his spear. From the shattered rock sparks rose to the night skies and lit the darkness with all the splendour of what we call northern lights.
To this day, many stars are still trapped in these unimpressive rocks. As they are quarried, cut and polished, one can get glimpses of the primeval light that is hidden inside.
Seen from most angles Labradorite stones look dull. Still, if one does not give up and keeps looking there comes a moment when they open to the sun and their inner light shines through.
The folowing images are a combination of scanography and macro photography. Sometimes the same stone was rotated and scanned several times in order to catch a wider range of hues and textures. Some of the macros were taken on the other side of the stone, the one that was not scanned.
Thank you for taking the time to review them and I hope you like them.
The original size scanograms of the stones are available on my scanography Pinterest board. They are free for non-commercial use.
