Black Rutilated Quartz 7x8mm Faceted Swirl Oval - 15-16 Inch White Wood yellow or gray and occasionally

yellow or gray and occasionally translucent milky white

or add to your favorite chain to make a sweet

It also serves as the Mohs hardness scale index mineral for a hardness of 8

who first discovered the stone in Southern California in 1868

Black Rutilated Quartz 7x8mm Faceted Swirl Oval - 15-16 Inch White Wood yellow or gray and occasionallyRutilated Quartz is a silicon dioxide mineral with unique needle like inclusions of Rutile. These needles usually appear golden, but can also appear silver, red, copper, or black and can be distributed randomly or in bundles or star like formations. Rutile is the mineral name for natural crystals of titanium dioxide, which may contain iron oxide. When the level of iron oxide is high, the inclusions appear more golden or copper, when it is low, they