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2. Mount Ida, Arkansas - Wikipedia

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   Mount Ida, Arkansas. Mount Ida is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States. Founded in 1842, the city saw a silver boom in the 1880s bring early prosperity and economic development to the area. Today, the economy is largely ranching, poultry farming, silviculture, and tourism around Lake Ouachita.

3. Quartz - Wikipedia

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   Quartz. Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO 4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO 2. Quartz is, therefore, classified structurally as a framework silicate mineral ...

4. Ouachita Mountains - Wikipedia

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   Vertical strata in the eastern Ouachitas Cluster of Arkansas quartz crystals from the Ouachita Mountains. The Ouachitas are formed by a thick succession of highly deformed Paleozoic strata constituting the Ouachita Fold and Thrust Belt, which crops out for approximately 220 miles (350 km) in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma. [3]

5. List of U.S. state minerals, rocks, stones and gemstones

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   State, federal district, territory Mineral Rock or stone Gemstone Alabama [1]: Hematite (1967): Marble (1969): Star blue quartz (1990): Alaska [2] [3]: Gold (1968 ...

6. Quartzite - Wikipedia

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   Quartzite is a very hard rock composed predominantly of an interlocking mosaic of quartz crystals. The grainy, sandpaper-like surface is glassy in appearance. Minor amounts of former cementing materials, iron oxide, silica, carbonate and clay, often migrate during recrystallization, causing streaks and lenses to form within the quartzite. [1 ...

7. Crater of Diamonds State Park - Wikipedia

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   Website. Crater of Diamonds State Park. Crater of Diamonds State Park is a 911-acre (369 ha) Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in the United States. The park features a 37.5-acre (15.2-hectare) plowed field, one of the few diamond -bearing sites accessible to the public. Diamonds have been discovered in the field continuously since ...