Rutile Quartz
Attributes
Rutile quartz calms the mind, strengthens confidence. It stimulates brain function, fights depression, improves communication. Also helps you to focus and direct your actions, especially recommended for people who put everything off. It increases awareness and intuition in evaluating people and situations.
Origin
Rutile quartz is a transparent quartz with fibrous inclusions of rutile inside in red, yellow or brown color. The silky hair inclusions can be curly, frizzy or straight, light or dark colored. They are forming different patterns which makes each stone unique. Rutile quartz is sometimes called "Venus hair" because it is most often in the form of fine threads inside quartz.
Rutile quartz at S&A collections comes from Brazil.
Name
The word quartz has its origins in the German “quartz”, while rutile comes from the Latin “rutilus” meaning red, as the early material studied
by German scientist Werner, who gave the mineral its name, was primarily that color.
History
Quartz itself has been used as an adornment for thousands of years. However the rutile quartz has a more recent history. In the 1950's people still did not pay much attention to quartz with rutile, but it changed when the collectors began to appreciate its unique beauty, and then
it gained value.
Astrology
Stone associated with: Gemini, Leo, Taurus, Aquarius.
