Fire Quartz Highland Cow Carving

About Fire Quartz  –

Fire quartz is quartz containing red and rusty inclusions of hematite, which can look like flames, flecks or clouds inside the crystal. It is a cheerful, warm-toned quartz that has become a customer favourite.

It forms when quartz grows in iron-rich fluids, trapping tiny hematite crystals or coatings within its structure as it crystallises.

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Cool Facts  –

Fire quartz (hematoid quartz) is quartz shot through with red and orange hematite, an iron oxide.

The iron was carried into the growing crystal by mineral-rich water, so the colour sits in clouds and veils inside the stone.

It is also sold as "harlequin quartz" when the hematite forms tiny red flecks.

Hematite's name comes from the Greek word for blood, a nod to the red powder it makes when crushed.

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