Gold Rutilated Quartz 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch Focals & Matching Rounds This Lapis has been treated

This Lapis has been treated to enhance the blue color

Turquoise is one of the oldest known gemstones

and can help with balance and harmony

and chatoyancy

It is a particularly unusual gem because it exhibits a special optical property known as tenebrescence

Gold Rutilated Quartz 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch Focals & Matching Rounds This Lapis has been treatedRutilated Quartz is a silicon dioxide mineral with unique needle to like inclusions of Rutile. These needles usually appear golden, but can also appear silver, red, copper, or black and can be distributed randomly or in bundles or star to like formations. Rutile is the mineral name for natural crystals of titanium dioxide, which may contain iron oxide. When the level of iron oxide is high, the inclusions appear more golden or copper, when it is low,