Rock and mineral macro video: Quartz Clusters with Iron / Manganese Oxides

This quartz plate has oxides inside, possibly Iron or Manganese due to their colors. Its a yellowish orange it has crystal formations on it, elestial quartz meaning crystals growing in crystals. It has a few terminated points, but mostly grown in a big crystal plate. Theres not much else on the stone besides some milky or smokey quartz.

There was alot of elestial quartz out at the Diamond Hill Mine in South Carolina.

Another stone I want to show off is a milky quartz plate, it has black lines going though the crystals which makes me think there are some oxides in there. These are smaller crystals than the last one, but the crystals are a completely different color.

I may run them through rust out to clean them up a little more. But I just dont want to damage their natural beauty, so two samples for this post with two types of quartz clusters.

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