SMOKEY QUARTZ GEMSTONE
Smoky quartz is a perfect healing stone and its brown colour induces the feeling of staying grounded among users. This stone is the lucky charm for Librans according to ancient astrology and brings them lot of success and strength. Healing properties of this stone are quite magnificent and are put to use for self-improvement. This gemstone is easy to cut and can acquire umpteen shapes making it a true lapidary's delight. Countries such as Australia, Brazil and China have remarkable deposits of this stone which was named as smoky topaz when found.
This brownish variety of gemstones holds special reputation among coloured gemstones as brown is not the usual colour in coloured gemstones. It can be further developed into variety of colours such as black or grey which make very interesting jewellery pieces made in unusual colours. Of all the colours, black variety is the most stylish to look at and used a lot among fashion jewellery designers.
If you come across terms like coon tail quartz or gwindel or cairngorm, please don't get confused as these are simply the varieties of smoky quartz. Coon tail quartz displays characteristic alternate bands, gwindel is a combination of crystals placed angularly to one another while cairngorm is actually the smoky quartz that gets its name after the place from where it was sourced and last but not the least, Morion is dark black variety of quartz.
Smoky quartz is an affordable gemstone that can be carved into variety of figurines, pendants, keepsakes etc that make very interesting gifts. Gemstone dealers find this stone very easy to trade because of various unique features such as interesting colour, variety of shapes and also multitude of items to offer to the buyers.
Swiss Alps and Colorado, USA are some of the regions of the world where remarkable deposits of this quartz were located in recent times. Smoky quartz is the most interesting member of quartz family and it finds many takers in fashion industry because of the unusual colour choice that it offers to the buyers.
