Quartz Photos
Cochise College   
Photos of Minerals
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Roger Weller, geology instructor

wellerr@cochise.edu   copyright 2013-R.Weller
last edited:  5/24/13  number of photos: 227

Quartz is SiO2
mineral information on quartz

crystalline quartz

amethyst
  amethyst crystals:  1  2  3  4567  8
  pale amethyst crystals:  1  2  3  4  5  6
  amethyst-faceted:  1

  amethyst from Uruguay:  1  23
  amethyst from Brazil:  1234  5  6  7  8  9
  amethyst from Mexico:  1  2  345
* 6  7*  8
  smoky amethyst crystal:  1  
  amethyst phantom crystal:  1  
  drusy amethyst:  1  
  amethyst from Arizona:  1                                                


citrine
   citrine crystals: 1  2* 3
   citrine geodes:  1  2  3  4  5
   citrine and smoky quartz crystal:  1  2  
 
milky quartz
   milky quartz crystals:  1  2  3  4
   milky quartz, massive:  1  2


rock crystal
   quartz-rock crystal:  1  2  3
   quartz-flat crystals:  1

   Herkimer diamonds:  1  2  3  4  5  6
   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
   rock crystals from Arizona:  1
  

smoky quartz
   smoky quartz crystals-Huachuca Mountains, Arizona:  1  2  3  4  5
   smoky quartz from Switzerland:  1  2
   smoky quartz crystal from Pala, California:  1  
   smoky quartz from Colorado:  1                                                                             
   smoky quartz on feldspar:  1
   smoky quartz, parallel growths:  1  2

pink quartz
   pink quartz crystals:  1  2

rose quartz crystal
  rose quartz crystals:  1

drusy quartz

   drusy quartz:  1  2

beta quartz (high temperature)
   beta quartz crystals:  1  2

quartz geodes
   geodes:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12
   cutting a quartz geode

inclusions in quartz                                                                 
   goethite and lepidochrosite:  1  2  3  4
   epidote:  1  2  
   sand:  1
   chlorite:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7
   garnet:  1
   rutile:  1  2  3  4  5
   tourmaline:  1  2
   calcite rhombohedrons:  1  2  3
   carbon inclusions:  1  2  3  4
   phantom crystals:  1  234  5  6  7  8  9
   water and bubble (enhydros):  1

peculiar crystals
   drawings of twinned quartz crystals1  2  3  4  5 
             6  7  8  9 

   Japanese twinned crystals:  1  2  3  4  5  6
   tabular quartz crystals:  1  2
   Pecos "diamonds":  1  2
   naturally "outlined" crystals: 1
   right-handed quartz crystals:  1  2
   left-handed crystals:  1
   scepter crystals:  1
   GIANT quartz crystals:  1  2  3  4  5  6

 
cryptocrystalline quartz
agate
   agate from Africa:  1
   agate from Lake Superior:  1
   agates from Mexico:  1   2
   agates from Brazil:  1  2  3  4
   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  7
   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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