Tangerine Quartz

Clear quartz wearing a thin skin of iron oxide. The orange is hematite that settled onto the crystal faces rather than color inside the quartz.

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

Origin

Minas Gerais, Brazil

Hardness

Mohs 7

Crystal system

trigonal

Family

iron-oxide-coated quartz

Luster

vitreous

Streak

white

Cleavage

none

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