Gold plated flat Drusy and some interesting facts

Quartz is the mineral which is found in the crust of the earth. There’re a lot of varieties of Quartz, and some of them are known as gemstones. Quartz is employed in different ways from making electric pars to carved statues. It’s the crystal with triangular prism.

Some very interesting facts about Drusy

• Gold plated flat Drusy is known by different names that depend on its colour mainly.
• The large Quartz is mined from Brazil.
• The Quartz which weighs 90,000 lbs is mined from Brazil.
• The Quartz is 2nd most abundantly found mineral on the planet   earth.
• There’re various uses of Quartz as it may conduct electricity   when under pressure.
• Quartz is sued commonly in the spiritual practices.
• Some people consider Quartz to have magical powers as well as an   ability to enhance the growth in gardens or to allure some good   energy in the house.
• Quartz is generally made of oxygen and silicon.
• Quartz is generally used in making ineternal parts of the   watches.
• Quartz is found so much in abundance that almost each and every   rock has some amount of this       mineral.
• Since Quartz is clear, its many a times used for producing   glass,
• As it has pure Silicon, Quartz is used for making various   computer parts.
• The people from Ireland and some other countries used Quartz for   making stone tools during the        pre-historic times.
• Quartz is many times used in fashion industry significantly for   making jewelry.
• Even though the variations in Quartz are available in different   colors, absolutely pure Quartz is        clear.

Chemical Formula	SiO2
Composition	Silicon dioxide
Hardness	7
Crystal system	Hexagonal
Streak	White
Color	Colorless, purple, white, pink, black and brown. Also green, gray, yellow, orange, red and blue.
Transparent	Transparent-Opaque
Luster	Vitreous
Fracture	Conchoidal
Tenacity	Brittle
Complex tests	Dissolves in hydrofluoric acid
Environment	Quartz occurs in every environment of the mineral
Cleavage	Indiscernible
Rock type	Sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic
Specific gravity	2.6 to 2.7
Popularity	1

Gold plated flat Drusy is a significant mineral having various uses. Sand which mainly comprises of the small pebbles of Quartz is the main ingredient for manufacturing glass. Transparent rock crystals has a lot of electronic uses, it’s used as oscillator in watches, radios, pressure gauge, etc. Quartz is even used as abrasive for sand blasting, glass grinding and cutting soft-stones. It’s also important in computer industry as important Silicon semi conductors are made up of Quartz.

Apart from the practical uses Quartz is important for gemstone trades. A lot of varieties of the stone are faceted as Amethyst, gems and Citrine are most well known varieties of gems. Smoky quartz, rose quartz, rock crystals and aventurine are polished or cut into gemstones. The small colourless crystal quartz is worn as pendants as a good luck charm.

Quartz is even quite known amongst collectors. Some collectors specialize their collections significantly on Quartz alone to make it unique.

The origin of beautiful white Opal Drusy

White Opal Drusy is an amorphous type of Hydrous Silica which was once considered to be unlucky. But, this can be attributed just because the gemstone was quite fragile and often chipped and scratched very easily. Since it has a very high amount of water, it is capable of deteriorating in cold and heat. Nonetheless, it’s a very attractive stone and it’s also considered to be lucky for some countries.

There are a lot of varieties of White Opal Drusy and each of the varieties is attractive and beautiful in its own unique way. The stone offers a very rich hue of prismatic shades which flash from the tiny fissures even when it’s cut into cabochons. It’s spangled and translucent with different shades of blue, yellow and red specks.

The most common variant of Opal is off white or a milky shade of blue and it produces the similar kind of effect but to lesser extent because of its opacity.

Another variant of opal that is Fire Opal is the hyacinth red to a honey yellow and displays intense red and orange fire like reflection. This is the only variant which may be faceted since some of the specimens are completely transparent.

Water Opal resembles the Fire Opal but the only difference is that it is completely colourless.

Wooden Opal is because of the replacement of the fossil woods by Hydrous Silica with retention of wood structure. It’s cut with the matrix for additional strength.

The very precious opal, in case held with the light displays a wonderful display of beautiful colours. It’s the most precious of all

Opal needs to be cut thickly because it fragile, for a fine cut, more the gemstone would deteriorate with time. It’s a very good idea to first thoroughly wash opal with water so that all the traces of cosmetics or perspiration are removed from it.

In other words, it is a good source of investment for the meticulous ones, and less for the negligent ones.

Although the extensive fresh deposits have been found recently in Australia from where sufficient amount of opal to visibly inundate the markets may be mined. However, the price of the some still continues to increase.

Most of the opal is mined in Australia except the Fire opal that is found in parts of Mexico.

Technical specifications

• The stone has been rated 5.5 to 6.5 on Moh’s scale of hardness
• The specific gravity of the stone is between 1.98 to 2.20
• The structure of the stone is amorphous
• There is no cleavage in the stone
• The refractive index ranges between 1.44 to 1.46

The stone is used for making earrings, rings, pendants, etc. But, it needs care and needs to be handled careful as it’s fragile. However, the maintenance of Drusy jewels is very easy. It can be done at home itself. You don’t need to go to the jeweller specifically for getting the jewels cleaned.