Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:6 mm mental clarity

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This is the Kathmandu Valley version

Honest naming: some very dark material is laboratory-irradiated

iron gives the deep black

Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:6 mm mental claritySmoky 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