Black Rutilated Quartz 7x8mm Faceted Swirl Oval - 15-16 Inch White Wood features intricate light brown patterns

features intricate light brown patterns on dark brown stones

brown and orange

meaning it forms by replacing another mineral’s crystal structure atom by atom with its own crystal structure

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

Black Rutilated Quartz 7x8mm Faceted Swirl Oval - 15-16 Inch White Wood features intricate light brown patternsRutilated 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