A uniquely created ring, made of 925 Sterling Silver which features 10.02cts of sparkling Green Crackled Quartz and 0.07cts of glistening accents of White Topaz.
Precious metal: 925 Sterling Silver
Average Weight: 2.70g
Number of Gemstones: 5
Shape: Round
Total Carat Weight: 10.09cts
Birthstone Month:
Regarding birthstone months for quartz, please refer to the specific variety of quartz.
History & Lore:
After Feldspar, Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's
continental crust.
There are many different varieties of quartz, several of
which are semi-precious gemstones. Especially in Europe and the Middle East,
varieties of quartz have been used, since antiquity. It is one of the most
commonly used minerals in the making of jewelry and hardstone carvings.
Pure quartz, traditionally called rock crystal (sometimes called clear
quartz), is colorless and transparent (clear) or translucent, and has often
been used for hardstone carvings, such as the Lothair Crystal. Common colored
varieties include citrine, rose quartz, amethyst, smoky quartz, milky quartz,
mint quartz and others.
The word
"quartz" comes from the German Quarz in which is of Slavic origin (Czech
miners called it křemen). Other sources attribute the word's origin to
the Saxon word Querkluftertz, meaning cross-vein ore.
Quartz is the most
common material identified as the mystical substance maban in Australian
Aboriginal mythology. It is found regularly in passage tomb cemeteries in
Europe in a burial context, such as Newgrange or Carrowmore in Ireland. The
Irish word for quartz is grian cloch, which means 'stone of the sun'.
Quartz was also used in Prehistoric Ireland, as well as many other countries,
for stone tools; both vein quartz and rock crystal were knapped as part of the
lithic technology of the prehistoric peoples.
In the 17th century,
Nicolas Steno discovered that regardless of a quartz crystal's size or shape,
its long prism faces always joined at a perfect 60° angle.