I found 2 quartz rocks with my metal detector. are they worth all the work to smash them and see whats inside
found in North carolina
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I found 2 quartz rocks with my metal detector. are they worth all the work to smash them and see whats inside
found in North carolina
depends on where you found it
could have mica, iron, gold, or nothing at all
Experience
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“Quartz inclusions are of goethite (star quartz), gold, pyrite, rutile, and tourmaline. Milky quartz includes trapped gas and liquid bubbles. The degree of milkiness depends on the number and size of inclusions present.”…
“Interruptions in the growth of a crystal can produce regular inclusions; parallel growth layers are sometimes called phantoms. The names ghost, phantom, specter and shadow crystal are applied to a form of quartz in which the crystallization was interrupted so that in the transparent successive layers there is an occasional opaque layer, often no thicker than the finest dusting of a white material.”
All from the source website, seems like it accurate.
http://www.davesdowntoearthrockshop.com/quartz.htm
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Quartz itself does not contain metal. Quartz is a crystal. What you’ve found is not pure quartz if a metal detector is picking it up. It’s mixed with a metal, and that could be anything, depending on where you live. It’s probably iron, since that’s a pretty common metal to find lying around (not in a pure form, of course).
But go ahead and smash them apart if you feel like it. You might just find some reddish stuff (iron) or maybe you’ve gotten lucky and managed to find some quartz that fused with gold or something.
http://www.davesdowntoearthrockshop.com/quartz.htm
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