Rock and minerals macro photography: Orange iron oxide elestial quartz and galena spots

in #rockhound • 6 years ago

Part 5:

Elestial quartz crystals form as matrix's inside other crystals. This one has what I think is iron inside of it making it orange. These were found at the Diamond Hill mine in South Carolina.

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Some large points on this rock, really fun to look at.

A few other iron oxide quartz finds.

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More of that elestial pattern.

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I am not sure what those black dots are, something in the stone.. Maybe Galena spots?

#geology #rocks #photography #macrophotography
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