Quartz PhotosRoger Weller, geology instructor
wellerr@cochise.edu
copyright 2008-R.Weller
last edited:
7/29/08 number
of photos: 145
Quartz is SiO2
Mineral information on quartz
crystalline quartz
amethyst
amethyst crystals:
1
2
3
4*
5*
6*
7
8
pale amethyst crystals:
1
2
3
4
5
6
amethyst-faceted:
1
amethyst from Uruguay:
1
2*
3
amethyst from Brazil:
1*
2*
3*
4
5
6
amethyst from Mexico:
1
2
3*
4*
5*
6
smoky amethyst crystal:
1
amethyst phantom crystal:
1
drusy amethyst:
1

citrine
citrine crystals:
1
2*
citrine geodes:
1
2
milky quartz
milky quartz crystal:
1
2
milky quarts, massive:
1
2
rock crystal
quartz-rock crystal:
1
2
3
quartz-flat crystals:
1
Herkimer diamonds:
1
2
3
4
rock crystals from Arkansas:
1
2
3
4
5
6
rock crystals from Tibet:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
rock crystals from Peru:
1
smoky quartz
smoky quartz crystals-Huachuca Mountains,
Arizona:
1
2
smoky quartz from Switzerland:
1
smoky quartz crystal from Pala, California:
1
smoky quartz on feldspar:
1
drusy quartz
drusy quartz:
1
beta quartz (high temperature)
beta quartz crystals:
1
2
quartz geodes
geodes:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
cutting a quartz geode
inclusions in quartz
goethite and lepidochrosite:
1
2
3
4
epidote:
1
2
sand:
1
chlorite:
1
garnet:
1
tourmaline:
1
calcite rhombohedrons:
1
carbon inclusions:
1
2
3
4
phantom crystals:
1
unusual crystals
Japanese twinned crystals:
1
2
tabular quartz crystals:
1
2
Pecos "diamonds":
1
2
cryptocrystalline quartz
agate
agate from Africa:
1
agate from Lake Superior:
1
agates from Mexico:
1
2
agates from Brazil:
1
2
3
blue lace agate:
1
fire agate:
1
2
grape agate:
1
2

red banded agate:
1
red, white, and blue agate:
1
pink agate:
1
banded agates:
1
2
chalcedony
chalcedony:
1
2
3
4
5
6
chalcedony geode:
1
2
chert
chert:
1
chrysoprase
chrysoprase:
1
2
flint
flint:
1
jasper
jasper:
1
2
polished block of jasper
tiger's-eye

unpolished tiger's-eye:
1
massive quartz
rose
quartz
rose quartz:
1
2
rose quartz with radiation haloes:
1
2
3
4
5
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Just credit photos to R.Weller/Cochise College.