Gold Rutilated Quartz Crescent Moons in Small Silver Hoops

I've sourced some new variations to add- talk about statement earrings! Small Sterling Silver forged hoops encircle these gorgeous, smooth crescent moons in GOLDEN RUTILATED QUARTZ! JUST LOOK AT THOSE GOLD STREAKS HIDDEN IN EACH!Like a diamond in the rough, rutilated quartz was long disregarded by miners and mineral sorters as worthless. Only pure quartz was viewed as valuable and so this variety was seen as tainted. Around the middle of the 20th century, however, this began to change. Fashion designers and collectors began to appreciate the ethereal beauty of rutilated quartz, sometimes likening its shimmering rutile threads to angel’s hair. Rutilated quartz is a variety of quartz containing needle-like inclusions of rutile, a mineral composed primarily of titanium dioxide (with large amounts of iron oxide). When the iron oxide in rutile quartz is high, the inclusions take on redder and often golden tones. Such inclusions can look like hay or strands of golden hair. This is why golden