Rutilated Quartz, Mix, Natural, Smooth Round, One 6mm Strand

Rutilated Quartz, Mix, Natural. Smooth Round, 6mm

This price is for one strand 15 to 16 inches long. 

6mm strands have 60 to 65 beads.

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.

Rutilated quartz is a variety of quartz which contains acicular (needle-like) inclusions of rutile. An inclusion is any material that becomes trapped inside another mineral when it forms.  These inclusions mostly look golden, but they also can look silver, copper red or deep black. They can be distributed randomly or in bundles. They can be arranged in star patters, and they can be sparse or dense enough to make the quartz body nearly opaque. For most gemstones, inclusions reduce their value. Rutilated Quartz are valued for the quality and beauty of these inclusions. Each rutilated quartz stone features a unique pattern of inclusions, so no two gems are exactly alike.

Rutile Quartz is mined throughout the world with the best examples coming from Australia, Brazil, India, Madagascar, Pakistan, Russia, Spain, and the USA.

Gold Rutilated Quartz is a transparent Quartz with golden yellow rutile inclusions that are in hairlike growths. Rutile is a type of titanium dioxide mineral that sometimes contains large quantities of iron oxide. Higher concentrations of iron oxide produce gold and red needles while stones with lower content may have rutile inclusions that are darker.

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.