INSIDE: Quartz healing crystals are probably the most popular and vast type of mineral in existence, and it can be confusing since there are so many variations. This articles breaks it down for you.

 

Quartz crystals are some of the most popular crystals, with a large variety of colors and types. 

In fact, there are such a vast array of quartz in the world that it can be difficult to keep track of them all. This article will help! Let's dive in to everything there is to know about this wonderful healing mineral.

What is Quartz?

Quartz crystals are one of the most common and well known crystals. They are hard, crystalline minerals composed of silicon and oxygen atoms.

The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO₄ silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO₂.

Quartz healing crystals are the most powerful healing stones, believed to be able to work on any condition.

One of the best Quartz healing properties is its ability to amplify any energy or intention. It also protects against negativity, connecting us to our higher selves.

Different Types of Quartz

Quartz healing crystal forms in almost all mineral environments. That’s because it is the most varied of all minerals. It can occur in different forms, colors, and habitats.

It becomes colored with the presence of other minerals, or growth imperfections. The most common Quartz variation, known as “Amethyst,” has iron impurities, for example.

The second most famous Quartz variation, Citrine, gets it yellow color from aluminum or irradiation. Here is a nice breakdown of Quartz, including color, structure, habits, laws, and varieties.

There are many types of quartz healing stones that don’t have the word ‘quartz’ in their name, including Amethyst, Citrine, Onyx, Jasper, and Agate, just to name a few. 

Clear Quartz

Let’s begin with Clear Quartz, which is the most common crystal among the Quartz family. Since it’s very common and easily accessed, it’s only natural that it be widely used.

The first attribute is that it is clear. In its visual effect, it resembles diamonds the more than most other crystals.

Clear Quartz is possibly the most versatile, multipurpose and powerful quartz healing stone available. Due to its unique, helical, spiral crystalline form, it is a master healer that can be used for any and all conditions.

It stimulates the immune system, reinstates bodily balance, and restores and amplifies energy systems.

Clear Quartz can be used to purify space, an aura, and other crystals. In this regard, it is very similar to Amethyst.

Since it is clear, it has the ability to create rainbow rays when exposed to direct sunlight, and simply through casting rainbow rays around the room, it can bring purification and positive energy to a space.

Smoky Quartz

Next on the list is Smoky Quartz. Unlike Clear Quartz, Smoky Quartz has a dimmed hue, as if it was held above smoke for a prolonged period of time, thus the name.

In addition to the generic healing properties of Quartz, Smoky Quartz is an excellent grounding stone.

It gently neutralizes negative vibrations and is detoxifying on all levels. It prompts the elimination of toxins from the digestive system and protects against radiation and electromagnetic smog. It disperses fear, lifts depression and negativity.

Smoky Quartz healing brings emotional calmness, relieving stress and anxiety. It promotes positive thoughts and actions, and it can help alleviate suicidal tendencies. It also has the ability to dispel nightmares and manifest your dreams. 

Rutilated Quartz

Now let’s talk about Rutilated Quartz. It is composed predominantly of Clear Quartz with golden strands of Rutile “stuck” inside it. The Quartz crystals form around the already existing Rutile needles and that’s how it comes to be.

Some phantoms, which are most often seen with quartz crystals, can be caused by natural irradiation of the crystal during its growth cycle.

There isn’t only golden inclusion of Rutile; there are also red, green, blue, and black strands.

Rutilated Quartz is an illuminator for the soul, promoting spiritual growth. This Quartz healing stone cleanses and energizes the aura, wards off negative energy and disease, and helps us let go of the past. Rutilated Quartz also provides protection against the ill thoughts of others.

Tourmalinated Quartz

Tourmalinated Quartz, otherwise known as “Tourmaline” is a crystalline boron silicate mineral compounded with elements such as aluminum, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium.

This quartz healing stone has many color variations, but black and pink are the most common ones.

Tourmalinated quartz is believed to protect the wearer from negative thoughts and emotions. It is said to be filled with energy that flashes through it, and connects one with other fields of energy.

Tourmaline provides a balancing of Yin and Yang energies and releases negative patterns.

This quartz stone is first and foremost a protection stone. It is wise to keep it in all four corners of a house or room.

Empaths, people who work in service fields, or people who are often exposed to danger should wear Tourmaline at all times. Mediums are also advised to wear Tourmalinated Quartz.

Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz, better known as “love stone,” is a quartz healing variation that is predominantly pink. It is abundant, very common, and is found in large quantities at numerous locations around the world.

It usually occurs as massive, anhedral occurrences in hydrothermal veins and pegmatites.

The pink color of Rose Quartz is attributed to microscopic inclusions of a pink variety of the mineral, Dumortierite. These inclusions are usually abundant enough to make the Rose Quartz translucent instead of transparent.

It comes in all hues of pink, from dark pink that looks like flesh to light pink that looks like cotton candy.

Rose Quartz is not called a ‘love stone’ for nothing. It purifies and opens the heart at all levels to accept love, to become self-loving, and to experience true friendship and deep inner healing. It also brings feelings of peace.

Calming and reassuring, Rose Quartz acts as comfort in times of grief. It dispels negativity and protects against environmental pollution, replacing it with loving vibes.

It’s a great stone to have near you at all times, especially under your pillow and as a main ingredient in spell jars.

Blue Quartz

Blue Quartz is an opaque to translucent, blue quartz variety whose color is due to blue inclusions; typically, fibrous magnesioriebeckite,  crocidolite, or tourmaline.

The color can be caused by the color of the minerals or by microscopic inclusions of Rayleigh light scattering.

Blue Quartz alleviates fear and enhances creativity and expression. It has the effect of balancing the Throat chakra. It can assist in communication and allows its owner to reach out to others.

It is an uplifting stone that aids in lifting depression and restoring hope, happiness, and peace.

Green Quartz

Green Quartz is a chemical compound consisting of one-part silicon and two parts oxygen, making it silicon dioxide (SiO2). It is the most abundant mineral found at Earth's surface. Its color varies from very pale green, clear-green, to deep-dark green.

Green Quartz healing crystals are excellent for stimulating creativity and intuition. It has the transmutation ability to turn negative energies into positive ones. It can bring success and prosperity, and it also attracts abundance.

Green Quartz supports the endocrine system and maintains balance in the physical body.

It can also be a great aid in opening the Heart chakra, stabilizing possessive and destructive emotions, and creating a connection between the Heart chakra and Third Eye chakra.

Since green is the color of abundance, it’s also very productive to place it in the feng shui money corner.

Yellow Quartz

Yellow Quartz has a color that varies from pale to very radiant yellow. It brings clarity for decision-making, relief from 'burnout', panic, nervousness, and exhaustion.

Yellow Quartz also supports sharper memory and concentration skills, and protection from lethargy and depression during dull weather.

This quartz variation is an awesome Solar Plexus chakra stone, and it has the ability to fortify a strong sense of self in people who lack self-esteem.

Milky Quartz

Milky Quartz is almost the same as Clear Quartz, but it is opaque, like someone poured fresh milk in it and let it condense. Milky Quartz has the same benefits as the Clear Quartz.

Milky Quartz aids concentration, helps with memory recall, enhances communication skills, accelerates healing, and stimulates the mind. This gemstone harmonizes our chakras and aura, and it brings balance to our physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being.

Amethyst

Amethyst is the purple variety of Quartz stone. Amethyst has a 7 Mohs hardness and does not break by cleavage. It is a gem that is durable enough for use in jewelry, such as rings, earrings, pendants, bracelets and crowns.

Amethyst is a natural tranquilizer, relieving stress and strain, soothing irritability, and balancing mood swings.

For those who have anger issues, Amethyst helps a lot since it dispels anger, rage, fear and anxiety. It alleviates sadness and grief, and dissolves negativity.

Amethyst is a stone that activates spiritual awareness, opens intuition, and enhances psychic abilities. That’s why it is best known as the Third Eye chakra opener and Crown chakra stabilizer.

Citrine

Citrine might be better known as the "good-luck and fortune stone." Its color varies from golden yellow to deep yellow and yellow-orange.

It is a very soothing and positive quartz healing stone that brings happiness, self-esteem and wealth.

Citrine promotes motivation, activates creativity, and encourages self-expression. It also enhances concentration and revitalizes the mind.

It releases negative traits, depression, fears and phobias. Citrine is great for emotional balancing and the healing of a wounded Solar Plexus chakra.

Tiger's Eye

Next on the stage, we have Tiger's Eye. This is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown color and a silky luster.

This is a very popular gemstone and for a good reason. Its metaphysical healing properties are many, including the ability to bring insight into complex situations, protecting us from negative energies, helping to focus the mind, and bringing good luck.

Tiger’s Eye also deepens our meditative state. It grounds and centers personal energy, dispels fears, and promotes mental clarity.

It is so powerful that many prominent men of the past wore it in their jewelry. It is known as the “warrior’s stone”.

Onyx

Onyx is a black variation of the quartz stone. It primarily refers to the parallel banded variety of the silicate mineral, Chalcedony.

Agate and Onyx are both varieties of layered Chalcedony that differ only in the form of the bands: Agate has curved bands, while Onyx has parallel bands.

This is a grounding stone that calm fears and roots spiritual energy within the body. Onyx creates a feeling of security, allowing us to see past fear and relieve everyday stress.

Onyx brings strength in all forms, and it is beneficial for the eyes, bones and nervous system.

Jasper

Jasper is an opaque variety of Chalcedony. It’s usually associated with brown, yellow, and reddish colors. Jasper is almost always multicolored, with unique color patterns and habits.

This is a stone of strength, rooting, and grounding energy. It sustains the body and supports the nervous system through times of stress.

Jasper brings tranquility and wholeness. It also provides protection, absorbs negative energy, and clears radiation.

Agate

Agate is usually banded in layers or stripes. Some varieties of it have "eye" markings, or specks of color, others have fossilized inclusions, while some are solid.

It’s called the ‘earth rainbow’ because the concentric bands of Agate form in nearly every color the earth can produce, including a colorless form. It is a translucent variety of Microcrystalline Quartz.

Agate’s “superpowers” are enhancing mental functions and improving concentration, perception, and analytical abilities.

Agate soothes and calms inner anger and anxiety, and it helps in the strengthening of relationships. It also has the ability to instill security and safety.

Aventurine

Aventurine is a form of quartz healing crystals, characterized by its translucency and the presence of platy, mineral inclusions that give it a shimmering or glistening effect, termed “aventurescence.”

The most common color of Aventurine is green, but it may also come in orange, brown, yellow, blue, or gray.

Aventurine heals negative emotions, calms down anger, and attracts prosperity, luck in business, and money.

It neutralizes all sources of electromagnetic pollution, blocking out emanations from computers, television, and other electronic equipment. Therefore, it is very useful to keep it on your work desk.

Aventurine settles down nausea and dissolves negative emotions and thoughts. It brings well-being and emotional calm. Aventurine also helps your digestive system work out emotional problems.

Mtorolite

Mtorolite is a green variation of quartz. Its color varies from opaque green to azure green. It is a supporting stone that provides rationality and the strength to withstand the challenges that life has for us.

Mtorolite supports the Heart chakra and emanates messages of tranquility to the brain. It’s a good transmitter of calming impulses and it also helps reduce electromagnetic radiation in our bodies.

Chalcedony

Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of Quartz and Moganite. These are both silica minerals, but they differ in that Quartz has a trigonal crystal structure, while Moganite is monoclinic.

This is a nurturing stone that promotes brotherhood and good will. It absorbs negative energy and “bad blood.” It brings the mind, body, emotions, and spirit into harmony.

Chalcedony instills feelings of benevolence and generosity. This is an amazing stone to have in your home, in your car, and on your person. It alleviates hostility and erases self-doubt, negative thoughts and emotions.

It also fights off nightmares and brings peaceful dreams.

Final Thoughts

There you have it! With all of these different types of Quartz, there is certainly something for everyone. Browse our current inventory of Quartz healing crystals here.