Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:10 mm Features unique color play

Features unique color play

the first mineral ever named for a person - every mineral since named for its discoverer follows the precedent

a dense green thicket on another

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Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:10 mm Features unique color playSmoky quartz clear crystal darkened to woodsmoke brown by natural radiation deep underground, and the stone Scotland cut from its mountains and called cairngorm. The same mineral as amethyst, in a smokier register. The colour is dissolved through the crystal, not laid on it: natural gamma radiation in the host rock acting over long ages on traces of aluminium in the quartz. So the stone stays translucent, champagne to near black, with clarity still