Smoky quartz (rauchtopaz)

The perfect insert for pendants! The stone is absolutely clear and sparkling all the facets. The center stone is gossamer, which confused rainbow.

The Topaz was known to people in ancient times. His first references are found in Scottish sources. For example, in Scotland the precious stone used as a decorative element of national clothes. The Scots themselves called mineral "kenholm". This was due to the fact that at mount Caingorm locals produced these jewels.
And in India and Tibet rauchtopaz called sacred stone – "stone Buddha". The precious mineral is especially prized among the religious societies of these countries, as it carried out the rites of purification of the mind and acquire a feeling of complete peace. Often, the Topaz was the main character of activities to meditate and go into trance. Seeing his people freed myself from negative energy and slag. Myths told about the bowl, carved out of precious stone. And everyone who drinks from it, water could get rid of any disease.
The Topaz has a rich array of colors from smoky to dark brown, from gray to dark gray with a purple hue. In nature there is a kind of stone having a completely black color, it is called Morion and stones with inclusions of a substance called "rutile" – nematomorpha. In any case, the real Topaz or smoke-coloured, as it was called in ancient times, jewelers-masters, has perfect transparency regardless of the degree of saturation of the tone.