Entry № 084
Candle Quartz (Pineapple)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO₂)
A quartz point encrusted with its own light.
Chakra
Crown · Sacral
Element
Fire · Storm
Zodiac
Sagittarius · Leo
I. The Metaphysical Reading
How the stone has been held.
Candle quartz, sometimes called pineapple quartz, is worked with as a stone of ancestral warmth and gathered light. Practitioners keep it on altars during winter and around family gatherings, and speak of it as a reminder that a single flame is easier to keep alive when it is sheltered.
- Chakra
- Crown · Sacral
- Element
- Fire · Storm
- Zodiac
- Sagittarius · Leo
- Keynote
- A quartz point encrusted with its own light.
II. The Scientific Reading
What the lattice actually does.
Candle quartz is a habit in which a larger quartz crystal is heavily coated in smaller parasitic quartz crystals that grew simultaneously on its faces, resembling wax that has run down the side of a taper. It forms when late hydrothermal fluids nucleate on an existing crystal at slightly different chemistry from the original growth. Fine material comes from Madagascar, particularly the Antsirabe region.
- Formula
- SiO₂
- System
- Trigonal (parasitic overgrowth)
- Hardness
- 7 (Mohs)
- Provenance
- Madagascar, Namibia, Brazil, China
References & Sources
Independent mineralogical references used to verify the scientific details above.
Mineral Profile
Fact Sheet
- Chemical Formula
- SiO₂
- Crystal System
- Trigonal (parasitic overgrowth)
- Mohs Hardness
- 7 (Mohs)
- Density
- 2.65 g/cm³
- Refractive Index
- 1.544 – 1.553
- Provenance
- Madagascar, Namibia, Brazil, China
- Color Origin
- Milky central point sheathed in smaller quartz crystals
Related Crystals
Stones that share this lattice
Next in the Atlas
Caribbean Calcite
Warm blue water held as stone.
