Widow quartz

Celestial, Cathedral, Cascading, Fenster Window Quartz.

Reflections on Quartz

Quartz Crystals - Crystal Peak, CA
Quartz, quartz, quartz

Northern California Quartz Types

Arrow head, quartz

New Smokey Quartz wand

Quartz tumble
I got an amazon microscope...
I cut rocks, but first I gotta find them

One Gallon in Silicon Valley
Covellite in Quartz aka "Pink Fire Quartz
Cutting rocks and breaking time itself...
Massive Quartz from El Dorado County, California

Natural unheated citrine and iron oxidized quartz

Crazy gem rock
4.5kg Rutilated Quartz Cluster

So purty

Congo (Kundalini) Citrine

It's a fricken bat

World's largest quartz crystal cluster,

A view of quartz, chalcedony, and calcite in a nodule, under visible light and shortwave ultraviolet light.
Citrine,
Arizona Gem Silica Bead
Amethyst crystal flowers.

Stunning Large Clear Quartz Cluster

Southern Arizona finds: a nice Vug, phantom quartz, and a newer little plate!
Now that’s a rose quartz!

Iron stained quartz from Zambia
such a dreamy mineral specimen
Shattuckite on quartz from Namibia
Quartz over Chrysocolla
Druzy quartz over chrysocolla w/ malachite

Blue against Quartz
I’ve shown you all some beautiful pieces I’ve purchased, but here is one I personally rockhounded

Rhyolite With Other Minerals
“Gold” Rutile Quartz Pendant. Lighting is natural sunlight.
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.

My favorite specimen. Look at all of those tiny points! Labeled as a quartz with calcite “floater” from Santa Barbara Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico
Some of my shinies!

Current Project
Epidote fans on Quartz from Morocco

Crystal Pear
Quartz and Fluorite w/ a red Hematite zoning line
River quartz agate

Golden Rutilated Quartz from Bahia, Novo Horizonte, Brazil.
Smokey Quartz Cluster

Beautiful crystals after an overnight soak!

Amethyst from my most recent dig

Smokey quartz and a Japan-Law Twin (I think) Amethyst from this weekend

Faceted! "Beginner Honeycomb" by Michiko Huynh!
More Minerals
Calcite, Green Quartz, Fluorite

Quartz with Azurite

Ajoite in Quartz
Elestial Smokey Quartz

Recently tumbled rocks plus recent local finds.

Rose Quartz, precision USA cut

Some microscope and macro pics of a few of my fav crystalline rocks with neat inclusions.
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