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Mindat Short Description

Quartz is one of the most common minerals found in the Earth's crust. If pure, quartz forms colorless, transparent and very hard crystals with a glass-like luster. A significant component of many igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, this natural...

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Mineral name and variations have been known since antiquity and predate any formal descriptive publication. For instance: Agricola G (1546) Book V. Quartz, in De Natura Fossilium, Froben (Basileae) 249-275

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

SiO₂

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

SiO₂

Additional References

• http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/quartz.pdf

• http://www.webmineral.com/data/Quartz.shtml