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 Post subject: What is the Rose Quartz Crystal?
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 7:38 am 
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Rose Quartz is a pink form of quartz. It is also known as Hyaline Quartz. It has a pale pink coloring and translucent transparency and a vitreous luster.


Rose quartz is found in many locations worldwide, including Brazil, Afghanistan and Israel. The color of rose quartz ranges from light pink to deep red, depending on the amount of iron in its composition. While most rose quartz is hexagonal prismatic crystal, it can also form into other shapes such as pyramids, prisms and octahedrons.

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It is actually very rare to find individual pink quartz crystals.
The rose quartz pictured above is massive, rather than crystalline. It consists of interlocking microscopic anhedral crystals not individual ones. The pink color is due to thread-like inclusions of pink dumortierite


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"Hyaline" is a term for clear, colorless quartz, not rose quartz.
Rose quartz is found loads of places, so it's weird to find Israel, one of the few places not known for producing it as far as I know, on the list.
Those are the shapes you'd find it cut into in a metaphysical shop, not how it forms.

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