Taking pride in his Dendritic Quartz collection, owner and designer at Made in Earth, Bunny Bedi, has always sourced the most exquisite specimens for his jewellery. Earrings can be impossible to find matching stones for and the detail is lost in smaller gems. With a hardness of 7, Dendritic Quartz is great for rings and pendants. The dendrites themselves can vary from black through to a pale brown giving each stone its own unique visual characteristic appearance of a landscape, a mineral garden of delicate ferns. Occasionally, healed fractures are stained with iron giving a yellow through orange body colour. In the jewellery world, they’re simply beautiful and can turn a piece of Quartz into something of spectacular beauty and intrigue.ĭendritic Quartz can be transparent to translucent depending on the clarity of the quartz and density of inclusions. In the gemmological world, dendrites and manganese oxides (MnO 2) and iron oxides (Fe 2O 3) and form in fine fractures and fissures through the crystallisation of manganese and/or iron rich solutions from surrounding weathered rock. Mathematicians and scientists have studied their attributes to further their knowledge of geometry, metallurgy, computer technologies, neurosciences, space and time. Fractals are fascinating for more than just the dendrites enthusiast. Dendrites are, by definition, a fractal-a “self-similar” pattern, meaning they are the same either near or far, an ever-evolving pattern of repetition and growth. One of the more beautiful and intriguing mineral inclusions are dendrites and dendritic inclusions.ĭendritic is the term used to describe the formation in which certain minerals crystallise, fine, fern-like branches much like the structure of frost and snowflakes. there are mineral inclusions that add colour, sheen and charm to a gemstone. Inclusions are the battle scars and something we should learn to love and appreciate (particularly since sources are not as abundant as they once were, and this may be our only hope for survival).Īside from the regular old feathers, veils, negative crystals, cavities, colour banding, etc. Crystals are an absolute miracle of nature requiring the perfect balance of ingredients and circumstances for crystallisation to take place. We need to remember these ‘flaws’ are remnants of a tedious and turbulent beginning – some hundreds of thousands to millions of years of heat, pressure, volcanic action, erosion, climatic changes and a delicate balance of chemical bonds. Yes, some inclusions may affect the clarity of a stone, but they can also contribute to the beauty of a stone. ‘Inclusion’ suggests involvement, formation or incorporation.
Inclusions are often referred to as ‘flaws’, a term I really dislike because it’s really not an appropriate description as the term suggests a failing, a glitch, or a defect.
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