Black Shungite Tumble Stone from The Crystal Shop, St Andrews.
 
Shungite
Stone of Protection
Root Chakra
Scorpio · Capricorn
 
Holistic Healing:
Traditionally associated with protection, balance and breaking old patterns. In crystal lore it is also linked to protection from electronics and screens, to purifying water, and to steady all-round wellbeing.
 
Metaphysical Traditions:
Regarded in Russian tradition as a purifying stone, and popularly kept beside electronics.
 
Cool Facts:
Elite shungite can be over 90% carbon; regular shungite contains much less. Shungite comes almost entirely from one deposit near Lake Onega in Karelia, Russia.
It is about 2 billion years old, and its carbon contains fullerenes – football-shaped molecules that won their discoverers the Nobel Prize in 1996.
Peter the Great set up Russia's first spa at a shungite spring in 1719.