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A powerful love stone for attraction
which also increases fertility and draws friends. Aids
overcoming loneliness, deprivation, childhood trauma,
aids self-love & gives beauty.
Rose quartz is one of the most desirable varieties of
quartz. The pink to rose red color is completely
unique, unlike any other pink mineral species. The
color is caused by iron and titanium impurities.
Rose
quartz is used as an ornamental stone and as a
gemstone. Although rose quartz is usually too cloudy
to be used as a cut gemstone, a few exceptional pieces
are found with enough clarity and color to make fine
gems. Most gemmy rose quartz is used as cabochons
where the clarity is not as important as the color.
Rose quartz is also a very attractive ornamental stone
and is carved into popular spheres, pyramids,
obelisks, figurines and ornate statues.
Rose
quartz is found in Madagascar, India, Germany and
several localities in the USA. Much rose quartz was
extracted from a famous site near Custer, South
Dakota, but now, most of the worlds supply of good
carvable rose quartz comes from Brazil.
Brazil is
also the only source of true well formed crystals of
rose quartz. All rose quartz was believed to be only
massive, found primarily in the cores of pegmatites.
This lack of crystals is somewhat of a curiosity
because quartz crystallizes into well formed crystals
in all its other macroscopic varieties. So amazing are
the rose quartz crystals that the first ones
discovered were dismissed as fakes by mineralogists
from around the world.
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