How much does my milky quartz cost?
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What Is The Difference Between Iron Oxidized Quartz and Rose Quartz?
I live in Arizona and have been collecting a lot of quartz specimens lately (snow/milky quartz/quartzite). A lot of pieces have veins of iron ..so they're white with pink or maroon veins. I have found some though that seem to have a pink hue to them that goes deep within the stone and doesn't seem like just oxidization. Is there a way to figure out if this is rose quartz vs regular quartz?
Is there a fundamental difference between milky quartz, smoky quartz and rose quartz?
Basically, no not really. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust. Rose quartz is a type of quartz which exhibits a pale pink to rose red hue. The color is usually considered as due to trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese, in the massive material. Some rose quartz contains microscopic rutile needles which produces an asterism in transmitted light. Smoky quartz is a gray, translucent version of quartz. It ranges in clarity from almost complete transparency to a brownish-gray crystal that is almost opaque. Some can also be black. Milk quartz or milky quartz may be the most common variety of crystalline quartz and can be found almost anywhere. The white color may be caused by minute fluid inclusions of gas, liquid, or both, trapped during the crystal formation. The cloudiness caused by the inclusions effectively bars its use in most optical and quality gemstone applications. I hope this helps you. Regards, Warren
How do you tell the difference between a rose quartz and a pink quartz?
Unlike rose quartz, pink quartz is light sensitive and will turn pale when exposed to direct sunlight. The color of pink quartz comes from different elements than that of rose quartz: traces of aluminum and phosphorus in pink quartz; titanium and thallium in rose quartz. Most significantly, perhaps, only pink quartz grows crystal formations. As a member of the quartz family, pink quartz has a 7 hardness, a 2.65 specific gravity and grows in a hexagonal configuration. It typically appears in clusters of small crystals growing parallel to one another. Considered a cloudy gemstone, clarity is not usually one of the characteristics used to determine the quality of different specimens. True pink quartz is extremely rare and so is not often polished, engraved or made into jewelry. It is more often sold in its original form to gemstone collectors. EDIT: I'm a geology major and while I haven't personally worked with pink quartz yet, I have worked with rose quartz. If you could e-mail me a picture of each, close up, I might be able to tell you which one is rose quartz. If you can do that - my email address is vivalatayler@ymail.com EDIT2: Smartaz- I think they are geologically different. Real pink quartz (pure pink quartz) is supposed to be more rare. I've never had to make the distinction before so I could be wrong. But based on what I've read- they are actually 2 separate minerals.