One of the most interesting minerals on Earth can be called quartz (see photo).Its composition, which includes silicon and oxygen, can be easily found even in the children's sandbox.Quartz crystals arises, changes its appearance because of the proximity with other minerals, stones and metals, so that finally gets the amazing color and shine.
What is quartz
Fit mineral crystals are separated into two groups: coarse-grained and cryptocrystalline.Amethyst, citrine, rock crystal, rauchtopaz, Black Morion - is the most famous and beautiful species of the transparent coarse quartz.Cryptocrystalline varieties are divided, in turn, on the fiber (chrysoprase, agate, carnelian) and fine-grained (Aventurine).
quartz deposits are located in the mountain hollows.So how does this breed?Quartz - is unique, it is shown that the crystal during its growth captures other minerals, impurities, even fragments of mud.Enveloping them, the crystal grows further, and foreign particles are all prisoners of stone ice.Thus are born the amazing rare stones, among which stand out a stone, "Venus Hair" and quartz "Phantom."
«Venus's hair»
various minerals can be enclosed in a quartz envelope.But the most valuable for jewelers is a stone with inclusions of rutile.Rutile or titanium oxide, with growing into quartz exhibits intriguing pattern in the form of needles or hairs.This mineral can be of different colors, from black to golden.Rock crystal, milky or smoky quartz with inclusions in the form of golden hairs called "Venus Hair".According to legend, the goddess of love, dropped her golden tresses in a mountain stream, and it froze all.
What is quartz with gold inclusions of rutile?Sometimes it's fantastic fiery spray enclosed in stone, and sometimes it is really seen the magic hair stranger.When the needle is filled with rutile quartz parallel born stone "Cat's Eye".
«Venus Hair" - it is a stone that protects from loneliness and symbolizes love.It is worn, old feelings of wanting to keep or acquire new ones, give your loved one.
What is quartz "Phantom"?
sometimes settle on the surface of the quartz chlorite smallest particles.Crystal continues to grow, as it remains within the contour of the outlandish figure.The thickness of the transparent stone can be seen the snowy peaks of the mountains or the ghost of an abandoned castle.This is quartz "Phantom", which is sometimes also called the stone shadows.
Such sprouting mineral dust in the crystal is an indication of the changes that have taken place with a stone.The more he was subjected to extremes of temperature or radiation, so it bizarre pattern.Such stones - a rare success for scientists and collectors.
Memory Keeper of the Earth, an eyewitness of global change, the symbol of frozen time - that is quartz "Phantom."Perhaps that is why this sort of balls mineral used during meditation.People believe in the ability of stone to discover the secrets of the past.Quartz "Phantom" would be a perfect gift to mark a new stage of life.
