TOP ROSE QUARTZ ROUGH
A Top Rose Quartz Rough chunk ready for cutting. Rose quartz with stunning deep pink colour and good size for lapidary work or as a specimen. The colour is a very deep pink with all sides cut so you can see what you are getting.
Location:
Madagascar.
Dimensions:
7.1cm x 4.1cm x 1.9cm, 110g.
Quartz: SiO2.
Quartz is one of the most common minerals found in the Earth’s crust. It is a significant component of many igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Quartz in its polished form was the most advanced technology thousands of years ago, used by the Assyrians among others. The Vikings could have used one of these to find the sun on a cloudy day. It would have been used as a magnifying glass too. Today it leads technology being the main component of transistors which make our computers, solar panels and many other components work.