Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Mountain Blue Sage At Mohs 7–7

At Mohs 7–7

The darker

quiet as a clouded sky

so each bead is a cross-section of its own growth - light and dark greens in curved eyes

Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Mountain Blue Sage At Mohs 7–7Smoky quartz clear crystal darkened to woodsmoke brown by natural radiation deep underground, and the stone Scotland cut from its mountains and called cairngorm. The same mineral as amethyst, in a smokier register. The colour is dissolved through the crystal, not laid on it: natural gamma radiation in the host rock acting over long ages on traces of aluminium in the quartz. So the stone stays translucent, champagne to near black, with clarity still