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Curved QUARTZ Altoona Area Quarries |
QUARTZ (Japan-law twin) with LUINAITE-(OH) Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
Radial LUINAITE-(OH) clusters on QUARTZ Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
QUARTZ (Japan-law twin) with perched LUINAITE-(OH) Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
QUARTZ with delicate, green sprays of LUINAITE-(OH) Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
Tabular QUARTZ crystal with LUINAITE-(OH) inclusions Bald Hornet Claim (Blue Mountain Saddle) |
Drusy QUARTZ spheres on ropey CLINOCHLORE Beaver Valley Quarry |
Drusy QUARTZ with light-green jasper Beaver Valley Quarry |
HEMATITE and QUARTZ pseudomporph after unidentified mineral EPIDOTE ? Bessemer Ridge |
QUARTZ and HEMATITE pseudomporph after unidentified mineral EPIDOTE ? Bessemer Ridge |
STILPNOMELANE in matrix QUARTZ Blanchard Hill |
STILPNOMELANE in matrix QUARTZ and green chert Blanchard Hill |
PYRITE coating CALCITE and drusy QUARTZ Cadman Quarry |
Banded blue-gray QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) Cadman Quarry |
CALCITE and QUARTZ with (CALCITE + QUARTZ) pseudomorphs aft ARAGONITE Cadman Quarry |
Blue-gray drusy QUARTZ with CALCITE Cadman Quarry |
CALCITE and QUARTZ pseudomorph after ARAGONITE Cadman Quarry |
Slightly amethystine QUARTZ crystal with hopper along prism face Cedar Ponds |
Slightly amethystine QUARTZ exhibiting Muzo habit Cedar Ponds |
Sceptered QUARTZ cluster Clipper View Claim |
QUARTZ scepter with cubic PYRITE inclusion reflected in all six termination faces Clipper View Claim |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ Clipper View Claim |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ with fluorescent phantom under short-wave ultraviolet light Clipper View Claim |
GOETHITE pseudomorph after SIDERITE on QUARTZ Clipper View Claim |
QUARTZ cluster with scepters Clipper View Claim |
QUARTZ scepter on matrix Clipper View Claim |
QUARTZ cluster with scepter and micro sulfide inclusions Clipper View Claim |
QUARTZ cluster with fluorescent phantoms under short-wave ultraviolet light Clipper View Claim |
Double-terminated QUARTZ cluster (floater) with fluorescent inclusions Clipper View Claim |
Sceptered QUARTZ cluster with SIDERITE inclusions Clipper View Claim |
Partially coated BOURNONITE with SPHALERITE and QUARTZ Coney Basin Mine |
Lustrous crude hexagonal MOLYBDENITE crystals in massive white QUARTZ Crown Point Mine |
Sharp euhedral MOLYBDENITE on QUARTZ Crown Point Mine |
"Raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter containing inclusions of HEMATITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
Terminated radial EPIDOTE spray with perched QUARTZ Denny Mountain Skarn |
"Raspberry" QUARTZ scepter with HEMATITE inclusions and rosettes Denny Mountain Skarn |
"Raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter with HEMATITE inclusions Denny Mountain Skarn |
"Raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter cluster containing inclusions of HEMATITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
QUARTZ scepter with HEMATITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
Double-terminated Japan-law twin QUARTZ on matrix Denny Mountain Skarn |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster Denny Mountain Skarn |
QUARTZ with green CHLORITE inclusions and red GROSSULAR garnet Denny Mountain Skarn |
QUARTZ scepter cluster Denny Mountain Skarn |
Botryoidal blue OPAL coating a broken QUARTZ crystal Denny Mountain Skarn |
High quality "raspberry" QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter containing inclusions of HEMATITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
Double-terminated QUARTZ Denny Mountain Skarn |
Dipyramidal SCHEELITE with QUARTZ on skarn matrix Denny Mountain Skarn |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster with PYRITE Denny Mountain Skarn |
QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - "Ellensburg Blue" Ellensburg Area |
Polished QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - "Ellensburg Blue" Ellensburg Area |
Smoky QUARTZ with inclusions of ARFVEDSONITE Golden Horn Batholith |
Gemmy QUARTZ (Var: Smokey) Golden Horn Batholith |
Gemmy QUARTZ (Var: Smokey) with fiery red ASTROPHYLLITE inclusion Golden Horn Batholith |
ZIRCON exhibiting a sharp tetragonal pyramid termination w/ perched orange BASTNAESITE-(Ce) crystals, also QUARTZ "speared" with ARFVEDSONITE Golden Horn Batholith |
Rough and Cut QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ with pyritihedral PYRITE inclusion Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepters on matrix Green Ridge Breccia |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ crystal Green Ridge Breccia |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ crystal on QUARTZ cluster Green Ridge Breccia |
Sceptered QUARTZ cluster Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) with enhydro Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ (Var: [light] Smokey) Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ with fluorescent phanton (under short-wave ultraviolet light) Green Ridge Breccia |
Sceptered QUARTZ crystal with enhydro Green Ridge Breccia |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster Green Ridge Breccia |
Large Japan-law twin QUARTZ crystal Green Ridge Breccia |
Sub-metallic GOETHITE partially coating QUARTZ Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ scepter (Var: Amethyst) with partial limonite coating Green Ridge Breccia |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter Hansen Creek |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster Hansen Creek |
Amethystine QUARTZ scepters Hansen Creek |
Amethyst QUARTZ scepter. Base of crystal appears dark in photo but is clear quartz (not smokey) Hansen Creek |
Sceptered QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) Hansen Creek |
"Dumbbell" sceptered QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) Hansen Creek |
QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) - Carnelian agate Kalama Area |
QUARTZ cluster on matrix with gemmy scepter Katie Belle Breccia |
ELECTRUM grains within dark gray bands of NAUMANNITE and white QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine) |
Slab of banded Au-Ag ore with NAUMANNITE and QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine) |
Rich ELECTRUM grains within dark gray bands of NAUMANNITE and white QUARTZ (Var: Chalcedony) Knob Hill Mine (Golden Promise Mine) |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ Mount Teneriffe |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ with phantoms Mount Teneriffe |
Japan-law twin QUARTZ cluster Mount Teneriffe |
Complex Japan-law twin QUARTZ with "double" termination Mount Teneriffe |
QUARTZ with SPHALERITE inclusion? Pend Oreille Mine |
SPHALERITE with QUARTZ crystals, PALYGORSKITE and minor PYRITE Pend Oreille Mine |
QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper Rialto Beach |
QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, concentrically zoned Rialto Beach |
QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, cut and polished Rialto Beach |
QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, cut and polished detail Rialto Beach |
Dark-gray, metallic PYROLUSITE (likely combined with other manganese oxides) found interstitial to QUARTZ (Var: Jasper) - orbicular jasper, cut and polished Rialto Beach |
QUARTZ (Var: Jasper), orbicular jasper, tumble polished Rialto Beach |
Gemmy REALGAR etched from calcite on QUARTZ Royal Reward Mine |
"Rice" QUARTZ South Fork Toutle River |
BARITE with QUARTZ and PYRITE Spruce Ridge |
PYRITE and QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
QUARTZ with ANKERITE Spruce Ridge |
BARITE perched on QUARTZ "flower" Spruce Ridge |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter on QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
QUARTZ cluster with QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepters Spruce Ridge |
Rehealed and sceptered QUARTZ splay Spruce Ridge |
ANKERITE "rose" perched on QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
Light amethystine QUARTZ scepter cluster Spruce Ridge |
Stacked ANKERITE crystals on QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
CALCITE and QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst) scepter cluster Spruce Ridge |
Stacked BARITE with QUARTZ Spruce Ridge |
Greenish-brown GROSSULAR garnet crystals partially coating QUARTZ Vesper Peak Skarn |
Small QUARTZ cluster with small Japan-Law twin and associated GROSSULAR garnet Vesper Peak Skarn |
QUARTZ epimorph after CALCITE (view from front, side and bottom) Vesper Peak Skarn |
Gemmy pink AXINITE on QUARTZ Vesper Peak Skarn |
QUARTZ (Var: Amethyst), CALCITE rose Walker Valley |