The intense purple balls of phosphosiderite have a diameter of 3mm, the whole ball strand is about 40cm long.
Phosphosiderite is a rare, at present little known mineral. Only recently compact
stones from Chile, Mexico and the USA are processed to jewelry and strands.
In stone medicine, phosposiderite is used as an invigorating and strengthening stone. In the
In astrology, phosphosiderite serves to activate the dynamics of Aries and the regenerative power of Scorpio.
The name phosphosiderite is derived from "phospho" for phosphorus and "sideros (Greek for iron); the name given in 1890 by Franz Siegfried Willy Bruhns and Karl Heinrich Emil Georg Busz is also recognized by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA). The spelling phosphorsiderite is not correct.