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Blue Granite – Variety of monzonite, an igneous rock; Epidosite – Hydrothermally altered epidote- and quartz-bearing rock; Felsite – Very fine-grained volcanic rock that sometimes contains larger crystals; Flint – Cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz; Ganister – Hard, fine-grained quartzose sandstone, or orthoquartzite
Varieties of the mineral Quartz. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. C. Chert (3 C, 23 P) Q. Quartz gemstones (2 C, 18 P)
Amethyst crystals – a purple quartz Apophyllite crystals sitting right beside a cluster of peachy bowtie stilbite Aquamarine variety of beryl with tourmaline on orthoclase Arsenopyrite from Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Aurichalcite needles spraying out within a protected pocket lined by bladed calcite crystals Austinite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico Ametrine ...
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, [1] [2] categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start fires. Flint occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones.
Citrine is a variety of quartz whose color ranges from pale yellow to brown due to a submicroscopic distribution of colloidal ferric hydroxide impurities. [40] Natural citrines are rare; most commercial citrines are heat-treated amethysts or smoky quartzes. However, a heat-treated amethyst will have small lines in the crystal, as opposed to a ...
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Quartz fiber; S. Sassafras Site, RI-55 This page was last edited on 12 September 2021, at 01:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Ametrine, also known as trystine or by its trade name as bolivianite, is a naturally occurring variety of quartz. It is a mixture of amethyst and citrine with zones of purple and yellow or orange. Almost all commercially available ametrine is mined in Bolivia .