47cm Sterling Silver Rose Quartz 15m Bead Necklace 112grams Feng Shui Broken Str
Vintage GORGEOUS Rose Quartz Stone Beaded Necklace. But the strand is broken, first 4 photo shows what it would look with new wire. Gorgeous Pretty Pastel Pink Colour. Quartz is the number One for Feng Shui Shakra. Sterling Silver clasp and peanut accent bead. Round beads are 15mm in diameter, larger than most. Length is 46 cm or 18 inches. Pretty Toggle clasp, so easy to put on.
Condition, beads and accents are excellent, but as I said it need to be restrung on wire, I do have some jewellery wire that might suit, will include if required. Net weight is 112 grams.
TCW is Approx over 500 Carats. Please remember most necklaces can also be worn as bracelets this one has two wraps of 22cm. Rose Quartz has a delicate pink colour that ranges from nearly white to a deep rose-pink. Microscopic mineral inclusions give it a cloudy translucence, however, and it is rarely highly saturated.
The most appealing color typically occurs in larger sizes, and small Rose Quartz specimens with good color tend to be rare. Cutters can intensify the delicate color by applying concave facets to gems in larger sizes. Occasionally a star pink Quartz is found, when inclusions of rutile are dense enough to create a weak six-rayed star phenomenon. Fully transparent pink Quartz is rare; the gems are usually cloudy and pale except in large sizes, so they are generally used for beads, cabochons and carvings rather than cocktail rings or pendants.In ancient times, Rose Quartz was used to carve crystal balls: perhaps to induce a rosy outlook? Quartz is a member of the silicates, the largest of all mineral groups, and is composed of silicon and oxygen.
The name stems from the German Quarz, which in turn comes from the Slavic word kwardy, meaning hard. Rose Quartz is found in rock formations called pegmatites, an igneous rock composed of interlocking crystals. It is sourced in Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Russia, and in the U. State of Maine, but the finest specimens are mined in Brazil. In the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, there are deposits of what some in the trade call pink crystalline Quartz, which is more deeply saturated and more transparent than its sister, Rose Quartz.
Pink Quartz is found in the vein systems inside phosphorus-rich pegmatites and has a slightly different origin and composition of trace elements.