Phantom Quartz, Natural, Faceted Off Round, One 8mm Strand

Phantom Quartz, Natural, Faceted Off Round, 8mm

This price is for one strand 15 to 16 inches long 

8mm faceted off round strands have 32 to 36 pieces

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.

Phantom Quartz is a variety of Quartz, that forms over pre-existing crystals. Such crystals display the outlines of numerous smaller crystals, known as phantoms. Phantoms are made when a certain crystal growth is being interrupted and then starts to form once again. Simply it is a mineral deposit or crystal within a crystal.

Phantom Quartz usually occurs in Rock Crystal, but is also found in Smoky Quartz, Citrine and Amethyst. Natural radiation from radioactive elements or adjacent radioactive rocks can cause rock crystal to assume a brown to gray color, known as smoky quartz. Minor iron impurities can cause Rock Crystal to be purple (Amethyst) or yellowish orange (Citrine). The color of the phantoms are commonly green, milky white, or shades of orange, red, purple or brown.

Phantom Quartz has been found in Austria, Brazil, Madagascar, Switzerland, and the United States.

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 2,000 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. This general belief was popular in diverse cultures until the eighteenth century, when modern geology began to develop in Europe.

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.