The stone: Rose Quartz
- Gentleness
- Affection
- Compassion
Assyrian and Roman workshops were cutting it three thousand years ago; what it means today, we made ourselves.
- Material
- Quartz, pink from microscopic mineral fibers
- Hardness
- Mohs 7
- Sources
- Brazil, Madagascar
People have been cutting rose quartz for three thousand years — beads survive from Assyrian and Roman contexts — but no ancient source records what they thought it meant. The pink comes from microscopic mineral fibers, which is also why so much of it is milky rather than clear.
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