Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:10 mm polished rod of translucent white

polished rod of translucent white satin-spar gypsum

Each round disc carries a small saltpetre charge embedded in the binder

or a quiet reset

the appeal is the pure black and its cool weight

and the stone took the glass’s name

Smoky Quartz Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:10 mm polished rod of translucent whiteSmoky quartz clear crystal darkened to woodsmoke brown by natural radiation deep underground, and the stone Scotland cut from its mountains and called cairngorm. The same mineral as amethyst, in a smokier register. The colour is dissolved through the crystal, not laid on it: natural gamma radiation in the host rock acting over long ages on traces of aluminium in the quartz. So the stone stays translucent, champagne to near black, with clarity still