Rock crystal lacks the array of colour found in other gemstones and is not as rare as a fine precious gemstone. However, due to its beauty, availability, and affordability rock crystal is in wide use as a gemstone. Rock crystal can have the colourless clarity of pure water, and has been known to be used as imitation diamonds.
Rock crystal is also popular as an ornamental stone. The most common use for rock crystal is in ornamental carvings and possibly the most common & well know to most people is the crystal ball used by fortune tellers, although finding rock crystal large enough with the clarity required for the crystal balls is not easy.
Many people prefer natural uncut clusters of rock crystal. These natural treasures look like crystal cities of fantasy stories. The long slender clear prisms of quartz projecting upward from a common base are true mineralogical wonders that can be admired by all. They cost of good clusters of rock crystal is quite affordable and comes from sources around the world.
Large individual crystals, some weighing over 44 tons, have been found in Brazil. Other countries that have been known for their natural rock crystal mines include the famous Hot Springs area of Arkansas, USA; Cumberland, England; St. Gotthard, Switzerland; Brazil and Madagascar.
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