Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:10 mm the first mineral ever named

the first mineral ever named for a person - every mineral since named for its discoverer follows the precedent

the appeal is the pure black and its cool weight

Features unique color play

polished rod of translucent white satin-spar gypsum

or for a longer sequential session with one stick per position

Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:10 mm the first mineral ever namedSmoky quartz clear crystal darkened to woodsmoke brown by natural radiation deep underground, and the stone Scotland cut from its mountains and called cairngorm. The same mineral as amethyst, in a smokier register. The colour is dissolved through the crystal, not laid on it: natural gamma radiation in the host rock acting over long ages on traces of aluminium in the quartz. So the stone stays translucent, champagne to near black, with clarity still