Fire Quartz Tower — Tall 10.5 Inch Hematoid Quartz Crystal Obelisk, Orange Red Polished Point, Statement Crystal Decor

This one glows.

Ten and a half inches of quartz shot through with iron, so the whole tower reads as warm rust and apricot with clean white quartz breaking through it. Dark red veins run across the faces like cracks in a coal, and where the quartz stays clear you can see straight down into the stone. Stand it near a lamp or a window in the late afternoon and the pale sections light up from inside while the iron holds its color.

It is tall and slim, which is the part photographs never quite carry. At this height it reads from across a room, but it takes up almost no shelf. The point is polished to a clean pyramid at the top and the base is flat and steady.

The color comes from hematite, iron oxide, grown inside the quartz while both were forming. That is what the trade means by fire quartz. Every piece is patterned differently because the iron went where it wanted.

WHAT THIS STONE IS FOR

Quartz is the amplifier, the stone people reach for when they want something turned up rather than redirected. Hematite is the opposite instinct: it is the grounding stone, the one associated with weight, steadiness, and coming back into your body. Fire quartz is both of those in one piece, and that is why people who work with stones like it so much. It is spoken of as the stone for people whose energy runs high and scattered, the ones with ten ideas and no floor under them. Quartz lifts, hematite anchors, and the pairing is read as focus rather than force.

It is also associated with courage of the ordinary kind. Not the dramatic sort, but the steadiness to keep going at something after the excitement has worn off. Some people keep a piece where they work for exactly that.

A tower shape is traditionally used to gather and direct. The point is where the attention goes, so towers tend to be placed where a room needs a focus, or on a desk facing the thing you are trying to move toward.

THE EXACT PIECE

The tower photographed here is the one you will receive. Each is one of a kind, and no two carry the iron the same way.

SPECIFICATIONS

Size: 10.5 inches tall and about 1.5 inches across (26.7 cm by 3.8 cm)

Weight: 1 lb 1.9 oz (508 g)

Stone: Hematoid quartz, sold in the trade as fire quartz

Form: Polished tower with a pointed top and a flat base

Finish: Polished on every face, cut and shaped from natural material

A NOTE ON NATURAL STONE

This is a natural stone that was cut and polished, so expect variation. You will find internal veils and fractures that catch the light, small pits where the polish met a softer patch, and color that shifts from deep rust to almost clear across the piece. Those are not flaws. They are what tells you it grew rather than got made.

Because natural minerals are delicate and can be damaged by the stress of shipping, we are unable to accept returns. If your item arrives damaged, please contact us within 48 hours with photos and we will make it right.