Chakras: Root
Benefits: One of the premiere grounding stones!
Enhances practicality & organization.
Can transmute almost unlimited amounts of negativity.
Helps draw the ethereal into manifestation.
Facilitates the carrier to see things such as: spirit guides, ghosts, fairies.
Helps one feel positively engaged with physical realm.
Offers spiritual protection from radiation.
Supports healing from sunburn. 
Dispels the physical effects of negative energies.
Helps spiritual people feel positively engaged with physical life.
Protective stone.
Manifests the spiritual in the physical
Can help one bring one's most potent dreams and inspired ideas into physical reality.