Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:10 mm the appeal is the pure

the appeal is the pure black and its cool weight

polished rod of translucent white satin-spar gypsum

Cedrus deodara

the iron oxide and densest stone in this range

a dense green thicket on another

Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:10 mm the appeal is the pureSmoky 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