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Stone Beads - Pebbles - Gold Rutilated Quartz (strand)

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  • Manufactured by: Dakota Stones
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Rutilated 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...
Colour Family: Browns

Size: 4mm

General Shape: Other

Product Type: Bead

Package Size: Strand

Stone Categ: Bead

Stone Type: Quartz

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Rutilated 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 appear dark or black. The inclusions can be so dense as to make the clear Quartz nearly opaque.

4-6mm Approx. 80 on approx. 16 inch (40.64 cm) strand. (strand)

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Stone Beads - Pebbles - Gold Rutilated Quartz (strand)


Quartz crystal, also known as "Rock Crystal" - a colourless transparent stone - origin of the term "rhinestone." Small, tumbled quartz stones were found in the bed of the river Rhine and initially thought to be diamonds. When it became apparent that these stones did not have the hardness of diamond, but were a passable simulation, the term "rhinestone" came to be synonymous with "imitation diamond."

We try to choose consistent stock, but the nature of natural stones is that there will be inconsistency between strands and between individual beads.