What is the difference between celestite and rutilated quartz crystall ball?

Answer 1

The first actually refers to the mineral, celestine, strontium sulfate which gives off a delicate blue color in samples, particularly those coming from Madagascar. The second rutile, literally from the latin word rutilum meaning red, is a mineral composed primarily of titanium dioxide which may contain up to ten percent iron and significant trace elements of niobium and tantalum. Rutile has among the highest refractive indices of any known mineral and exhibits high dispersion. Rutile is found as an accessory mineral in some alterred igneous rocks, and in certain gneisses, and schists. When rutile is arranged in groups of acicular crystals it is frequently seen as penetrating quartz and can exhibit diasterism, meaning that when a light source illuminates a ball or cabochon from the back surface, you can visualize a point with a starburst pattern appearing along the surface of the ball. This starburst on the "sphere's" surface, sometimes contains as manyas six lines,most often equally spaced apart from one another which appear to wrap around the sphere only on the sphere's surface; however, if the sphere is translucent or transparent you can see this phenomenum in 3-D "through the sphere". This phenomenum in penetrating quartz is referred to as "fleches d'amour" in Grisons, Switzerland. For a visual Yahoo "rutilated wiki" and choose the fourth option down or go to shopwiki.com. If anyone has a job out there as a researcher give me a call, I'm serious: 410-409-5194. Now that you know what they are made of (thanks Vdswartz) here's what to do with them. CELESTITE: Compassion; Eloquence; Healing; Relieves headaches, body tension & physical stress.

QUARTZ CRYSTAL, Rutilated: Increases the effectiveness of your magic; Increases strength of will.