Smoky Rutilated Quartz with Epidote
Measures Approximately: 1 1/2" x 1 1/4" x 1/2"
Weighs Approximately: .7 oz
Wow, another crazy combination of inclusions. Madagascar, you continue to blow my mind all the time.
Smoky quartz is a brown to black variety of quartz. According to current theories exposure to natural underground radiation causes trace amounts of trivalent aluminum (Al3+) to replace some of its silicon. This change in its crystal structure creates its color. The name has changed slightly over time. Many historical sources called it “smoked quartz” instead, after its resemblance to smoke cured foods. Since natural irradiated color develops slowly below certain temperatures, smoky quartz tends to be found in specific environments like higher elevations where it had time to slowly darken.
Rutile is a titanium oxide mineral (TiO2) that forms in golden or red colored needle shaped threads when it occurs within quartz. When it forms in other minerals, such as ruby or sapphire, it can create asterism that is the desirable "star" effect that plays across the surface of the gemstone when seen in direct light. The titanium oxide created by purifying and making a powder with rutile is used as a non-toxic white pigment for paints, cosmetics, food, and toothpaste.
Epidote Included Quartz is often called Green Earth Healer Quartz. It has many extremely powerful and practical qualities that makes it a must-have in the tool box of the serious energy worker, healer, herbalist, or for anyone who requires deep and profound healing, restoration, or “plugging back in” to systems of support in either the spiritual or physical levels. Green Earth Healer Quartz is a bridge, an amplifier, a weaver, an anchor, a purifier, and a teacher of the hidden wisdom of nature. Use it to assist you to maximize the vital properties of the herbal kingdom, to attract or call in abundance and prosperity, or to fully anchor and regulate higher spiritual energies to the physical level for healing, reconnection, or manifestation. It can be used as a an active healing tool during energy work sessions, in a gem elixir, as meditation piece, or in earth healing ceremony. To read a whole blog article on Green Earth Healing Quartz, please go here.