QUARTZ

QUARTZ SiO₂ Crystal: Rhombohedral Hardness: 7 Sp.G.: 2.6 - 2.65 Cleavage: None Fracture: Conchoidal Colour: Colourless, White, Lustre: Vitreous, Glassy

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Cabiche, Quípama,
Western Boyacá Province,
Boyacá Department,
COLOMBIA

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Stone of All Purpose

Quartz is the most essential stone to crystal healers. The belief in quartz as a healing stone stems from it’s scientific properties for use in electronic devices.

It has been used as a fortune telling device (Crystal Balls) for centuries to communicate with the spirit world.

Metaphysical Healears say it is a protective stone and a balancer of human energies. It is helpful for decision making.

Zodiac: Multiple Signs

Pure quartz, traditionally called rock crystal or clear quartz, is colourless and transparent or translucent, and has often been used for carvings.

Well-formed crystals typically form in a 'bed' that has unconstrained growth into a void; usually the crystals are attached at the other end to a matrix and only one termination pyramid is present.

However, doubly terminated crystals do occur where they develop freely without attachment, for instance within gypsum.

A quartz geode is such a situation where the void is approximately spherical in shape, lined with a bed of crystals pointing inward. Quartz is a defining constituent of granite and other felsic igneous rocks. It is very common in sedimentary rocks such as sandstone and shale. It is a common constituent of schist, gneiss, quartzite and other metamorphic rocks.

Quartz has the lowest potential for weathering in the Goldich dissolution series and consequently it is very common as a residual mineral in stream sediments and residual soils.

While the majority of quartz crystallises from molten magma, much quartz also chemically precipitates from hot hydrothermal veins as gangue, sometimes with ore minerals like gold, silver and copper.

Large crystals of quartz are found in magmatic pegmatites. Well-formed crystals may reach several meters in length and weight hundreds of kilograms.

Naturally occurring quartz crystals of extremely high purity, necessary for the crucibles and other equipment used for growing silicon wafers in the semiconductor industry, are expensive and rare.

A major mining location for high purity quartz is the Spruce Pine Gem Mine in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, United States. Quartz may also be found in Caldoveiro Peak in Asturias, Spain.

The largest documented single crystal of quartz was found near Itapore, Goiaz, Brazil; it measured approximately 6.1×1.5×1.5 m and weighed 39,916 Kilograms.

QUARTZ
after beta Quartz

Beta Quartz is a polymorph of silica but with a higher crystral symmetry than Quartz. Quartz belongs to the Trigonal system, Beta Quartz only exists over 573ºC and is Hexagonal represented by a six sided prism terminated by 6-sided pyramids at both ends.

Beta Quartz is not considered a formal mineral species by the IMA as it is not stable at room temperature and cannot be quenched from high temperatures. All "beta-quartz" or "quartz-beta" or "high quartz" in collections actually represent paramorphs of quartz after beta-quartz.

"Beta-quartz" is most commonly found in silica-rich volcanic rocks like rhyolite.

The phase transition is at about 573°C at ambient pressures. When heated quickly, beta-quartz melts at about 1550°C, otherwise it will turn into beta-cristobalite at around 1050°C. The temperature of the phase transition from quartz to beta-quartz increases with pressure.
Ref: MINDAT

QUARTZ ENHYDRO

Enhydro quartz is transparent crystalline quartz with
water-filled internal cavities.

Enclosed in negative voids within the stone, there may be a bubble of air which has evaporated out of the liquid as the growing quartz crystal cooled.

Water, siliceous fluids or petrochemical inclusions inside a negative cavity may form a moveable bubble.

The entrapment of aqueous inclusions within a crystal lattice typically occurs during the crystal growth process within a hydrothermal environment. Hydrothermal fluids, consisting of heated water and dissolved minerals, play a crucial role in facilitating crystal growth. As the mineral precipitates from the solution, liquid water along with some dissolved gases can become trapped within imperfections or cavities in the crystal lattice. Over geological time scales, these inclusions become isolated and remain encapsulated within the host mineral.

There are various types of enhydro crystals, but the most common host mineral is quartz. This is because quartz is naturally clear, allowing for a good view of the trapped water inclusions inside.

Other minerals can also form enhydro crystals, but they may be less common or commercially viable due to factors like clarity or durability.
Ref: Geologyin

METAPHYSICAL PROPERTIES
OF ENHYDRO QUARTZ

The water inside these crystals has been kept pure from the contaminants and industrial pollution. This makes it an ideal crystal to use for those seeking purity.

Metaphysical healers say it brings purity to the mind, body or soul.

This water is literally the elixir of life and contains all the purity of the original divine plan.

One may meditate with Enhydro Quartz crystals with a focus on connecting with this divine plan.

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