Zi Ran Tong

Pyritum, Iron Pyrite, Zi Ran Tong 自然铜 Pyrite; Vulcan’s Stone: Lapis luminaris: Hephaestites: Lapis aerarius: ‘Fire Stone’:Zi Ran Tong (TCM)Vimala Makshik (Ayurveda)Pha Bang Long Bu ཕ་བང་ལོང་བུ་ (Tibetan Medicine)Marqashitha (Unani, from which our ‘Marcasite’ comes) Hortus sanitatis, 1491 Conradi Gesneri de Rerum Fossilium Lapidum et Gemmarum, 1565 Metallotheca Vaticana, Mercati, 1719 Photo: Rob Lavinsky iRocks.com Mineralogical…