Rose Quartz

"Stone of Love"

Rose quartz, a beloved variety of quartz cherished for its delicate pink hues ranging from very pale to a richer blush, is a gentle gemstone often associated with love, compassion, and emotional healing, revered for centuries for its soothing energy and captivating beauty in jewellery, carvings, and practices fostering peace and tenderness. Its beautiful pink colour is believed to arise from trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese within the silicon dioxide crystal lattice, with microscopic Dumortierite inclusions sometimes contributing; typically forming in the cores of pegmatites in massive form, well-formed crystals are rare, with significant sources including Brazil, South Africa, India, Madagascar, and the United States, its soft, diffused colour often giving it a slightly cloudy or milky appearance, adding to its gentle allure, and some specimens exhibiting asterism when cut as cabochons. As a member of the quartz family with a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale and a typically vitreous lustre with translucent to opaque transparency, Rose Quartz is durable for jewellery and deeply connected to the heart chakra, believed to promote self-love, attract romantic love, foster deeper connections, heal emotional wounds, reduce stress, encourage forgiveness and empathy, and in crystal healing, used to support the circulatory system, reduce wrinkles, and promote overall emotional well-being, its soft pink colour inherently soothing and nurturing. erties.