Stone 101
Quartz stained red and gold from the inside by iron. Also called fire quartz.
Hematoid quartz is quartz full of rusty red, orange or yellow clouds from iron minerals. Here you'll find towers, spheres, generators and freeform pendants, in red and yellow.
The basics
Hematoid quartz is ordinary quartz that grew around specks of hematite, an iron oxide. The iron gives it the brick-red colour. You'll also hear it called fire quartz.
Yellow pieces get their colour from related iron minerals instead. Under a light you can see the colour sits inside the stone in clouds and patches.
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Straight talk
Watch for dyed quartz sold as fire quartz. Dye collects in cracks as thin, bright lines, while natural hematoid has soft clouds and patches of colour inside. If a piece we sell were ever dyed or man-made, the title would say so.
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Good questions
It's traditionally linked with grounding, focus and energy, and with the root chakra. Most people pick it because the red clouds inside look like fire. That's a fine reason.
Both are quartz with iron inside. Red pieces get their colour from hematite. Yellow ones get it from related iron minerals. Same stone, different shade.
Yes, fire quartz is another name for it. You may also see ferruginous quartz, which just means quartz with iron in it.
Natural hematoid has colour in soft clouds and patches inside the quartz. Bright colour that only runs along cracks is a sign of dye.
