SMOKY QUARTZ

SMOKY QUARTZ
SiO₂

Crystal: Rhombohedral
Hardness: 7
Sp.G.: 2.6 - 2.65
Cleavage: None
Fracture: Conchoidal
Colour: Black
Lustre: Vitreous, Glassy

Smoky quartz is a brownish grey, translucent variety of quartz that ranges in clarity from almost complete transparency to an almost-opaque brownish-gray or black crystals. The colour of smoky quartz is produced when natural radiation, emitted from the surrounding rock, activates colour centers around aluminum impurities within the crystalline quartz.

Morion is a very dark brown to black opaque variety. Morion is the German, Danish, Spanish and Polish synonym for smoky quartz.

The name is from a misreading of mormorion in Pliny the Elder. Cairngorm is a variety of smoky quartz found in the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. It usually has a smoky yellow-brown colour, though some specimens are greyish-brown. It is used in Scottish jewellery and as a decoration on kilt pins and the handles of sgianan-dubha (anglicised: sgian-dubhs or skean dhu).

The largest known cairngorm crystal is a 23.6 kg (52 lb) specimen kept at Braemar Castle.

Stone of Protection Metaphysical Healers say Smoky Quartz is a protective stone but also is said to have the power to focus ones ability to pay attention to detail. It was used in tribal ceremonies to enliven one’s tribal instincts, increase one’s sense of responsibility and to increase ones sense of pride in achievement.

Smokey Quartz alleviates fears and restructures all negative emotions into positive energy. Integrates energy of more powerful crystals. Excellent protective stone that helps deflect negative energy.

Zodiac: Capricorn, Sagittarius

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