Diopside Quartz

Pale pink quartz peppered with sharp black inclusions. The host is unmistakably quartz; the dark flecks are a second mineral that was already there when the quartz grew around them, and they scatter through the pink like ground pepper.

This piece gets a price when it is ready to sell.

Hardness

Mohs 7

Crystal system

trigonal

Family

quartz with dark mineral inclusions

Luster

vitreous

Streak

white

Cleavage

none

Where quartz is found in the field, on the rockhounding map