Strawberry Quartz Faceted Banded 3mm Round - 15-16 inch R1520 Hematite is an iron oxide

Hematite is an iron oxide and one of the few gemstones with a metallic luster

It occurs with wave-like bands of charcoal gray

Famous malachite mines in the Ural mountains of Russia once produced 20 to ton blocks of the stone

producing the effect of the stone seeming to shine from within

Strawberry Quartz Faceted Banded 3mm Round - 15-16 inch R1520 Hematite is an iron oxideStrawberry Quartz is a translucent, milky to pink silicon dioxide mineral. Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red. Quartz has been highly valued by virtually every civilization throughout history, often used in healing and meditation and as religious objects in funerary rites and to dispel evil.