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Rose quartz — specimen 0175, photo © NMNHS
Rose quartz — specimen 0175, photo © NMNHS

Rose quartzspecimen 0175

Origin

no precise locality [Africa]
Data

Weight: 2.41 ct; size: 8.98 | 8.92 | 6.07 mm; shape: octagon; colour: very light purple; clarity: eye clean; cut: excellent; treatment: none.
Notes

Very clean specimen; design ‘Eight’ by Glenn & Martha Vargas, excellent cut by Tan Pen.

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Two varieties of quartz are called rose quartz. One is found in translucent masses made of intergrown anhedral crystals. It is always showing a hazy to translucent character due to microscopic fibrous inclusions of a pink borosilicate mineral related to dumortierite. The other variety occurs in well-formed crystals of similar colour. The colour is apparently caused by irradiation-induced colour centres based on Al and P, that replace Si in the atom lattice.