quartzes in English
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a hard white or colorless mineral consisting of silicon dioxide, found widely in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. It is often colored by impurities (as in amethyst, citrine, and cairngorm).
The sample is strongly foliated and consists of garnet, biotite, quartz , plagioclase and cordierite.
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1. Quartzes are big and showy but smaller in price.
2. Cryptocrystalline quartz crystals (carnelian, chrysocolla) are so densely packed that they can’t even be seen with a microscope! We’ve used this system to discuss the quartzes in the gem profiles, and will continue to do so.