A polished golden healer quartz sphere from Brazil, warm honey gold with clearer quartz showing through. The name is a trade term from the crystal market; geologically this is simply iron-included quartz. Its golden tone comes from iron oxide (commonly goethite) that formed within the quartz as it crystallised in mineral-rich water underground. It sits in the same family as hematoid quartz, where iron gives the stone its colour: yellow-gold pieces are sold as golden healer, red ones as fire quartz. Nothing here is dyed or heated; the colour is how the iron left it.
Mineral: Quartz (SiO₂) with natural iron oxide inclusions
Crystal system: Trigonal
Origin: Brazil
Hardness: 7 on the Mohs scale; durable and easy to handle
Treatment: None. Natural golden colour from iron oxide inclusions
Diameter: 6.72 cm
Weight: 420 g
Note: Acrylic stand included (not the stand shown in the photo)
You'll receive the exact piece photographed.