A Gorgeous Stone with a Mystic Origin – Rose Quartz

 Far in the world, a country where 60% of amazon forest is found maintains the chief source of this Quartz though it can also be found in India, Madagascar, South Africa, Mozambique, and United States. A heart stone which was used as a love token in 600 B.C. and still an essential amulet of relationships. - Rose Quartz

Inspiring the love of beauty in oneself or the other was prized in the ancient world for its powers of physical beautification, in Egyptian tombs, its Rose facial masks were also discovered. This Quartz became one of the major carving stones of china but also was awarded by Tibetans and Oriental cultures. Crystals of this Pink Quartz are coarsely crystalline, i.e., they are quite large. Interference from other growing crystals make it impossible to have any external faces.

This gemstone is colored naturally. Hence, there is no treatment. Rose Quartz was referred to as antique as Bohemian or Silesian Ruby, called as Pink Quartz or Hyaline Quartz, a word came from a Greek word “hylaos” which indicates glass. Crystalline Rose Quartz, a tag it carried as it is formed in clusters of small prismatic crystals.

Dating the stone back to 7000 B.C was found in the area once known as Mesopotamia, and it is believed that Romans & Assyrians in 800-600 B.C. were the first ones to use the stone.