Crystal wands are famous throughout history as the magical tools of wizardry in countless tales of lore. Most of us have probably heard of crystal wands from fairy tales. You wouldn’t think that crystal wands existed naturally would you? But they do, in fact. Natural quartz crystal wands that exist in the shape and likeness [...]

Let’s look at the basic quartz crystal structure. Quartz is grouped under the hexagonal category of crystalline structures; structural models such as trigonal, isometric, tetragonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, hexagonal, and triclinic patterns. The basic quartz structure is a tetrahedron, which repeats itself by duplicating the likeness of a spiral within itself, turning either right or left.
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The double terminated quartz crystal is a quartz crystal with two ends that end in natural facets. Double terminated quartz crystals are rather rare specimens, and the rarest of all, would be the Herkimer Diamonds. Normally, these crystals form in free floating pockets of liquid that slowly evaporated, leaving perfectly formed crystals with terminations on [...]

The quartz crystal cluster formation is amongst the chief formations that are recognized by the preponderance of crystals in a cluster, appearing as a group type of formation in caves, veins, or geodes.
The quartz crystal cluster combines the group energy of the entire number of crystals in the cluster, and due to this, it is [...]

The Herkimer diamond is amongst the most unique members of the quartz family because of their resemblance to true diamonds, and yet they are totally quartzite in everything else. The Herkimer Diamond is so named because it was first found in Herkimer County, New York State, but they have since been uncovered in Mexico, Spain, [...]