Crystal Quartz, Natural, Faceted Off Round, One 10mm Strand

Crystal Quartz, Natural, Faceted Off Round, 10mm

This price is for one strand 15 to 16 inches long

10mm faceted off round strands have 30 to 34 pieces

Crystal Quartz, also called rock crystal or clear quartz, is a colorless and transparent or translucent.  It can be icy clear or have inclusions, veils, bubbles and various colors. World's largest quartz crystal cluster on display is in Namibia.  It was discovered in 1985 in a deep cave and is 9’ x 9’ and weighs 141 metric tons and took three years to excavate and remove.

Rock crystal quartz is found world wide, some of the major finds are in the the Alps, Brazil, Madagascar, and Japan. The best quartz crystals from the United States are found in Arkansas, and New York.

Quartz is Arkansas state mineral.

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar.  Pliny wrote nearly 2000 years ago that quartz crystals formed from ice exposed to intense cold for long periods of time in dark clefts and caverns in the mountains, like fossilized ice.  This general belief was popular in diverse cultures until the eighteenth century, when modern geology began to develop in Europe. The word quartz crystal comes from the Greek word "krystallos," which means ice.  Quartz is extracted from open pit mines usually using bulldozers and backhoes to expose the quartz crystal veins in the rocks.  Miners only use explosives on rare occasions when they need to expose a deep seam of quartz. 

Hardness  7

This is a natural stone that has had no treatment other than cutting, drilling, and polishing.

The source of these beads is Brazil and they are cut, drilled and polished in China.