Strawberry Quartz 3x6mm Heishi - 15-16 Inch featured_09192024 It is opaque and occurs

It is opaque and occurs in a wide variety of colors

from pastel to bright to dark

and much of the black Onyx on the market has been artificially colored

Many stones in the Russian crown jewels from the 17th century which were thought to be rubies are actually red Tourmaline

No two are exactly alike

Strawberry Quartz 3x6mm Heishi - 15-16 Inch featured_09192024 It is opaque and occursStrawberry Quartz is a translucent, milky to pink silicon dioxide mineral. Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red. Quartz has been highly valued by virtually every civilization throughout history, often used in healing and meditation and as religious objects in funerary rites and to dispel evil.