Strawberry Quartz 7x10mm Faceted Tube - 15-16 Inch 1.7mm While fairly nondescript under normal

While fairly nondescript under normal lighting conditions

gray and brown banding and dendritic patterns

who first discovered the stone in Southern California in 1868

Rutile is the mineral name for natural crystals of titanium dioxide

Strawberry Quartz 7x10mm Faceted Tube - 15-16 Inch 1.7mm While fairly nondescript under normalStrawberry Quartz is a translucent, milky to pink silicon dioxide mineral. Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red. Quartz has been highly valued by virtually every civilization throughout history, often used in healing and meditation and as religious objects in funerary rites and to dispel evil.