Rutilated Quartz 2mm Table Cut Cube Banded - 15-16 InchRutilated 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

Like other forms of jasper it is a power

but truly unique

It is best known for its characteristic deep blue to violet-blue color

this gemstone in its polished state looks like what it would be like to capture smoke in a stone -- bottomless black mixed with white wisps

where copper contributes to blue tones and iron introduces green variations

pressure and a stabilizing agent or resin

but rather a speckled teal Jasper found in Africa and often treated to simulate the beautiful blue to green associated with true Turquoise

Malachite was used extensively as decoration in the palaces of Russian tsars and forms the columns of St

It forms when Quartz and Feldspar crystallize in radial aggregates within other silica-rich stones

This stone is considered to have many different metaphysical properties

Topaz is found in many locations worldwide where rocks like pegmatite and rhyolite are formed

It sometimes features dark brown to black dendritic inclusions that branch like tiny tree limbs through the stone