Insouciant Studios Sunshine and Daisies Earrings Rutilated Quartz
Insouciant Studios Presents the "Sunshine and Daisies" Earrings featuring sunny yellow heavily rutilated natural quartz. Quality gold plate construction and earwires.
Measurements
Total Length ~1 3/4 inches
1/2 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]