Green Line, Quartz, Natural, Smooth Round in sizes 6mm, 8mm, Price per Strand

Green Line, Quartz, Natural, Smooth Round Beads in sizes 6mm & 8mm

This price is for one bead strand 15 to 16 inches long

6mm strands have 60 to 65 pieces

8mm strands have 43 to 48 pieces

Green Quartz is a macrocrystalline mineral quartz variety. This quartz contains some inclusions of either chlorite or chromium interspersed in the crystalline matrix of quartz to provide the green look. Quartz can be icy clear or have inclusions, veils, bubbles, and various colors. This Green Line Quartz is primary green, but has other natural colors of Quartz.

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar. Pliny wrote nearly 2,000 years ago that quartz crystals formed from ice exposed to intense cold for long periods of time in dark clefts and caverns in the mountains. This general belief was popular in diverse cultures until the eighteenth century, when modern geology began to develop in Europe.

Hardness 7  

This is a natural stone that has had no treatment other than cutting, drilling, and polishing. 

The source of these beads is unknown and they are cut, drilled and polished in China.