Rose Quartz Heart

Group A to C are Madagascan Hearts – lovely puff shaped crystals. You can see them in the main photo.

Group D (second photo) is an example of buying blind from a new Chinese supplier. Most were in poor colour and they are offered a big discount to sell. However they will make a lovely “add-in” gift to a child’s presents. The relatively flat shape and size is actually great if you want to drill a hole and create pendants.

• Dimensions are for Group D.
• C has inclusions on one side – hence discount
• Main photos:  Group A – Left, Group B – Middle, Group C – Right
• A – SOLD

Benefits of Rose Quartz

Myself and others love that this crystal as it is all about relationships. It promotes mutual understanding and trust, adding a spark to a romance. It is also wonderful for easing a mid-life crisis or soothing a broken heart. For others it helps with emotional balance. You can read more about the shape.

Click here to see buy as rose quartz heart jewellery on website.

Weight	19 g
Dimensions	36 × 32 × 14 mm
Colour	Pink / Crimson
Country Crystal Grew	Madagascar, Unknown
Country of Shaping	China, Madagascar
Size	Mini, Small

Healing Properties

Benefits of Rose Quartz (Pink Quartz)

• An emotional healer and a stone of unconditional love.
• Releases unexpressed emotions and heartache.
• Helps alleviate negative thought forms and energies, reducing stress.
• Enhances love, confidence and creativity which have been supressed by a closure somewhere in the heart's energy.
• Assists one to appreciate all things great and small.
• Can increase fertility as the Heart chakra opens to self nurture, forgiveness and compassion.
• Said to strengthen physical heart, chest and lungs.

Shamarah's intuitive insights

Stone for those who give a lot of love and support to others but feel "wrong" to receive it themselves. It reminds the holder to let love in because the cycle of giving and receiving love builds the love you have to be stronger. When you keep noticing the rose quartz it is often a message that you have many in the physical and spiritual realms ready to support you - so let them in to give you a hand. Stones of fertility don't just mean pregnancy, but also the development (pregnancy) and birth of your creative endeavours - your projects.

Additional Properties of Varieties

Pink toward the lavender tones

• Opens connections between the heart and mind.

Pink with orange streaks

Inclusions of hematite.

• Helps the heart enegy move down into the lower chakras,
  • so you "walk the love" in your life.

Geological Information

Geological Information of Rose Quartz

• Alternative name: Pink Quartz
• Rose quartz is a type of quartz name for its colour.

General Identification

• Type: Mineral
• Class: Silicates
• Category: Oxides
• Formula: SiO2 Silicon Dioxide
• Crystal System: Trigonal
• Habit: 6-sided prism ending in 6-sided pyramid (typical), drusy, fine-grained to microcrystalline, massive
• Mohs Hardness:  7
• Luster / Diaphaneity: Transparent to nearly opaque, Vitreous, in massive: waxy or dull.
• Colour: pale pink to rose pink

Special Notes

• It most often grows in masses - never even finding a leading edge of crystal points.
• Occasionally found in crystal cluster form and was officially given own name of Pink Quartz but that has now gone.
• Rose quartz occurs in pegmatites - it forms at very high temperatures, between 400 and 700 degrees Centigrade.
• The color is usually considered as due to trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese, in the material.
  • Recent X-ray diffraction studies suggest that the color is due to thin microscopic fibers of possibly dumortierite within the quartz.
• "Star" Rose Quartz has microscopic rutile needles which produces an asterism in transmitted light.
• The crystalline form in elestial in form was originally not called rose quartz and was called Pink Quartz.
  • Often over grew smoky quartz.
  • Found to leach very fast in UV light!
  • Synthetic versions exist.
  • These days all forms are called Rose Quartz.
• Irradiation may cause the formation of smoky quartz color centers and add a gray tone.
• Streaks of orange can occur from iron coating.
• Mostly used for jewellery and decorative objects.
• More geological information and more here.