Rose Quartz, Enhanced, Puffy Heart, One 20mm Strand

Rose Quartz, Enhanced, Puffy Heart, One 20mm Strand

This price is for one strand 15 to 16 inches

Heart strands have about 16 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. 

Rose Quartz is found in a course-grained igneous rock (usually granite). Its colors range from a pastel pink to a rose-pink hue, including orangey and violet pinks, and are believed to be caused by trace amounts of minerals, like titanium and Dumortierite inclusions. It can be transparent to translucent with soft radiating glow, but many times will have a milky pink color.

Much of the Rose Quartz that is sold today is found in Brazil, South Africa, India, and Madagascar. Other sources include Namibia, Mozambique, and Sri Lanka. In the United States, a deposit near Custer, South Dakota once produced significant amounts of Rose Quartz.

Rose Quartz is South Dakota’s and Georgia’s state mineral.

Hardness 7

These Rose Quartz beads were cut, drilled and polished in China.  They have been enhanced by heating, but not dyed.

Many natural gemstone beads are subjected to some kind of treatment to enhance or alter their appearance in addition to cutting, drilling and polishing.

To enhance beads means to improve the color, clarity, or quality of beads by heating, filling, oiling, dying, and coating. At Beauty in the Bead, we take treatments to beads seriously and will, to the best of our ability, provide information on enhancements to our beads. While some treatments are undetectable, we do our best to provide information for informed buying decisions.