Insouciant Studios Desert Blossom Earrings Turquoise & Carnelian

Insouciant Studios "Desert Blossom" earrings featuring a striking combination of natural orange carnelian, and sparkling copper goldstone, rich swirled blueberry quartz, royal blue agate, and sky blue bead caps. 14k rose gold filled construction & earwires. These earrings are rich and intriguing, with a bright, complimentary color palette and details that shimmer. The colors are drawn from the desert.

Measurements
Total Length 2 1/4 inches
~1/4 inch wide

Materials

Quartz (SiO2, Silicon Dioxide) is the second most abundant mineral of the Earth's crust. Quartz has a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale, an occurs in a variety of colors, from colorless to black. Some of the colors have their own gem names:
Purple: Amethyst
Yellow: Citrine
Yellow and Purple: Ametrine
Green: Prasiolite
White: Milk, snow
Brown/gray/black: Smoke
Pink: Rose
[Mineralogy, Perkins]