Eleven facts about rose quartz
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- The pink color of quartz, which can range from transparent to translucent, is known as rose quartz.
- The color is caused by iron and titanium impurities.
- Hardness: 7
- The color is a very pale and delicate pink.
- 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 quality rose quartz comes from Brazil.
- Transparent rose quartz is very rare and is usually so pale that it does not show very much color except in large sizes.
- So amazing are the rose quartz crystals that the first ones discovered were dismissed as fakes by mineralogists from around the world.
- The translucent quality of rose quartz is much more widely available and is used for beads, cabochons, carvings, sculptures and decoration purposes.
- One variety of rose quartz holds an asterism effect and is called star quartz.
- Rose quartz is used as an ornamental stone and as a gemstone. It is also an alternate birthstone for the month of January.
