White Quartz: A translucent white mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form. White Quartz is basically clear quartz with a high degree of cloudiness. It is usually uniform in terms of the color, but has areas of more or less opacity.
Moss agate is white quartz with green patterns inside resembling moss. It's pattern and colour are formed by magnesium or iron oxides within the mineral. Moss agate also comes with brown or black patterns.
These also show phantom shapes with purple interior and white quartz exterior. Mexican stones are considered valuable than their counterparts found in other areas. Many amethyst crystals also occur as massive or pyramidal druzy clusters.
Seeing what was about to happen, Diana transformed Amethyst into a glimmering pure white quartz statue, thus protecting her from the ferocious tigers. Moved with guilt, Dionysus realized the ruthlessness of his actions and began to weep with sorrow.
Unakite is a mixture of green epidote, pink-red jasper and gray-white quartz. It is named after the Unakas Mountains in North Carolina (USA). Unakite is an opaque gemstone with a hardness of 6 to 7 on the Mohs scale.
Topaz matrices form in two types: crystals imbedded in limonite and crystals attached to white quartz. The latter are quite rare, and topaz terminations are frequently damaged during the mining process.
Snow Quartz: see White Quartz.
Soda: Any of various forms of Sodium carbonate used in making soap, powders, glass, and paper.
Crystals of metals like gold, silver and copper within white quartzite rock have long been valued for their beauty.
[Gold in quartz ring and bolo tie, copper in quartz pendant] ...
QUARTZ: Amethyst variety. - Angus, Scotland.
Cavity infilled with a clear chalcedony rind and inner zones
of white quartz and purple amethyst.
Domeno, SPAIN ...
Many stunning art deco jewellery designs featured the black and white quartz combination of rock crystal and onyx. Colourless quartz crystals have also become popular in jewellery due to the popularity of legends about their powers.
This ancient passage grave in the Boyne Valley of Ireland, which is older than the pyramids, was built so that the sun would stream through the 70-foot-long entrance tunnel on the Winter Solstice. Its roof was originally covered with white quartz, ...
Some excellent dark blue facet grade kyanite has been found in a white quartz vein located near the summit of California's Yellow Mountain.
Mariposite (variety of phengite/muscovite)
Menilite (variety of opal)
Meerschaum (variety of sepiolite)
Milky quartz (a cloudy white quartz)
Morganite (a pink beryl)
Morion (synonym of smoky quartz) ...
 See also: Quartz, Stone, Crystal, Gemstone, Color
  
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