Quartz, the mineral of a Thousand Uses - Everything about Quartz, the gold host and gemstone 

this just sparked my interest yet again in minerals and rocks in general.... i remember at the age of around 10 i started a rock collection most were not anything but i would like to call plain old rocks ... but when revisiting that collection years later i found that i had a raw diamond rock amazing find since iam in michigan ... great stuff and you earned a sub 👍

I am so grateful to find your channel I got curious about gold just a few days ago because I was looking at packrafting and bushwalking and it seems to be a process that can involve both. Gives you an excuse to "be out there". Your channel really gives the understanding from first principles and cuts the fluff out. Your enthusiasm is infectious!

Thanks again Chris, I never knew that common old quartz came in such a variety of colors and shapes. Amazing stuff!

“Crush it and pan it” this seems to be the common catch cry for every piece of barren quartz posted on social media. Imagine if you crushed and panned every piece of quartz you found. You would be crushing and panning forever, the likely hood of finding gold this way would be pretty slim.

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing your knowledge

I've collected minerals for 40 years with a primary focus upon North Carolina. Here in NC, we are blessed with a multitude of quartz varieties. I have collected colorless "rock crystal" quartz from tiny crystals to some weighing 30 or more pounds but have seen some weighing in excess of 750 pounds from NC. The amethyst or purple variety is also fairly widespread in the state with the Reel Mine near Iron Station in Lincoln Co., NC being the most well known locality. It occurs in at least 20 counties or more. Smoky quartz often irradiated to almost black in color by radioactive trace elements occurs in many of the western counties associated with quartz veins that form in largely granitic areas. Beautiful large gem-grade crystals from Hiddenite, Alexander Co., NC are well known and they sometimes occur in pockets with emerald, the state gemstone. Citrine, is less common but I have seen some great natural citrine from the cores of pegmatites and also in good crystals. Alexander and Catawba counties produced some good citrine. Rose, the pink variety is less common but again it forms in some of the pegmatite core material especially in the Spruce Pines mining district, Hiddenite area in Alexander County, Wake County and a dark pink rose quartz was once found on Fox Mt. in Iredell County, NC. The quartz that I love the most though are the varieties with other mineral inclusions such as rutile, actinolite, chlorite and even mud. These can make beautiful specimens and gems. NC has produced what is probably the best rutilated quartz with the rich red variety of rutile needles included within the clear to smoky quartz in the US. Magnificent examples are found in Alexander, Catawba, Randolph and Cleveland Counties. There are so many quartz localities in just NC alone that it would be near impossible to list them all here. If you can't tell, quartz is one of my favorite minerals also!

Here in Oregon we get a lot of agates, jasper, and pet wood. If youre really lucky, you'll find sagenite. It's like the agate version of rutilated quartz. Super neat stuff ^^

Always learning from your videos. Thanks for sharing.

I moved to AZ a few years ago and am excited to join a local club and do some prospecting especially after all the heavy rains and now armed with the knowledge I did not have a clue 10 years ago even having read a stack of books. You're vids in the am Dan H around midday and Jeff W at night when a little crazy is in order . I'm south of Quartzsite and the stuff is everywhere!

Hey Chris, Thanks for sharing your emense knowledge on geology and your valuable experience in this field. I have been retired for a few years now from Managing a highly advanced water treatment plant that utilized Micro and Nano filtration methods, in this form of filtration there is a concentrate stream which is the waste product and in this stream it is highly concentrated with mineral and biologic elements which we needed to very carefully balanced where we needed to delay or eliminate the chance of mineral precipitation mainly calcium and magesium salts so when we didn't get it right we would build crystals! In my retirement I have taken up the hobby of hard rock prospecting,I know I'm nuts but I love it! I am currently reading your book and studing the sections on mineral precipitation and WOW how useful and informative it is!! Chris keep the information coming!! Thanks again, Bob Wall

Great video keep them coming plus it keeps you from shoveling all that snow !!!!

I have a piece of rose quartz I bagged about 30 years ago in Amador county that has amazing clarity. I have some nice amethyst pieces and other rocks I've collected over the years. I need to find myself a meteorite.

Great lesson like all of your vids. Keep it up and thank you.

Great informative presentation!💯

Thank you for your knowledge

Hello Ralph, I love your videos, thank you for all the effort. I'm a chemist (inorganic). I studied some of the minerals you show but never saw even pictures of them....just molecular structures, on paper. I would recommend your videos to anyone who starting a career in chemistry or mineralogy. Angelo

Thanks for the info

way to make minerology interesting and fun! good video!

just found a bunch of cool rocks, some of them was regular quartz and yellow quartz. got me intrested in all the different kinds so finding your video was a godsend 👌🏻💕

Quartz outcroppings, or float in a wash, is the "Numero Uno" mineral I look for while prospecting. If it's mixed iron sulfides or oxides, even better ! Thanks for sharing your knowledge on this subject. BTW, quartz mixed with aluminium and borax (Pyrex) are good for making telescope mirrors. 🔭👍

Great Video man

🙏🏽 Thank you.

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Very good.

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This is the best video EVER

❤Thankyouverymuch

Hi from Illinois and I love my crystals

Good stuff here. Lots of crystals here in butte mt. Unfortunately I can only locate low quality stuff. The people that find the high quality crystals are tight lipped. And it's amazing how we are finding more and more uses for this product. Ty sir

Absolutely Outstanding Information Sir! Purchased your book from Amazon immediately upon your revealing you were an author! I've been an amateur in many fields, geology, gemology, I also create custom jewelry, & would love to break out some of my old Fire Agate if you still would like to sport a ring, Love of stones & geology is something that we live for! We are crystals! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Subscribed!, Commented!, Shared!! LIKED!❤👈😎👍

Love your videos I have learned so much. I contest what you say. Past 70 years of erosion has exposed so much. Big finds are around every corner. If you are in Phoenix, I’ll prove it too you!

Kentucky state agates are actually the kings (my opinion) love this video

Hi. I think I just found a big chunk of quartz. Not sure what type of quartz. It was in our backyard here in Loganville GA 😅. I was digging up the mulch that turned into dirt to fill in the yard and this quartz was in the dirt. Cool. I washed it twice,the first time with baking soda and warm water and then with Crud Cutter and warm water. GA dirt is red so it may have stained the quartz? It's shiny learly white,hints of Grey and rose gold tone. Thank you for the video

Hi Chris. I was wondering, I see for example clear quartz sold as Himalayan clear quartz. Is there any way to confirm by any characteristics that it is in fact from such an area? Thanks in advance. Wayne.

It can also gennerate elecktricity when you strike it together

Chris, I had a handful of white Quartz crystals about the size of my fingers with points on one end and I cleaned them with HCL and rinsed well with water. They were very bright and clean but when I let them dry in the Summer sun, they turned lemon yellow in a few hours. Does that mean they contain Sulfur ?

Could you do a video on blue quartz since it wasn't mentioned here? I'd like to hear your take on what forms it. I suppose the general theory is unknown proportions of iron, titanium and magnesium. I've found specimens on my property with mixes of rose quartz colors in them and one that is distinctly have blue and half rose much like ametrine. I do seem to fine less translucent blue quartz and when I do, it seems to usually be banded.

As a learned man of quartz, what are your thoughts on it's "healing power"?

I have some of that

Do you have a ebook

I do have the below crystals 1. Ametyst pendent 2. Clear Quartz mala 3. Yellow Tourmaline 4. Blood stone pendent 5. Lapis Lazuli 6. Labrodorite 7. Black tourmaline 8. Golden Obsidian Which of the above crystals should not be worn together

I have so much mica on our land and in my house and in the little creek. Do you think I could find gold here. I have been looking. Only mica.

is it possible that native elements; gold, copper, silver, remain imprisoned inside a quartz crystal during the formation process of it?

At 3:30 ,, can that black dust be gold in any other form?? If not, how are they related?

Why common quartz crystals are observed in manganese bearing areas. What is piezo quartz

Clear Quartz is said to amplify energy and when paired with Amethyst amplifies it , if someone is going to negative emotions and if he/she wears Clear Quartz will it amplify his negativity or will lt remove that negativity?

I have a question, I have found quartz with green inclusion with some studies it's shows some traces of chromium. Is it possible and is the rock valuable?

Is Nickel and copper scrap need quartz for smelting?if use then what % is can be quartz uses

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Chris, ive inherited 180 acres of old gold mining claims in central Arizona which is covered with outcroppings of white quartz, where do i begin in seeing whats there? Do i start busting open rocks or panning or just cook a ribeye and smoke cigars up there?

People say agate can't be sync from labs. Is that true and is there a reason?

Can quartz mineral be recycled? If so, how?

I live in Central Oregon and there are Lava Flows and Volcanos everywhere. Shouldn't there be Crystals everywhere?

Will quartz watch work

Could I just put the quartz in a crucible to extract the gold?

I have quartz

5:57 " prospectors would call it a blow of quartz", " bc it's coming out of the ground like it was boiling up"? I'm sorry did I hear that wrong? Why would they call it blow for that?

Not true…..this comment will not make it through….However, I have the proof.

Thank You Chris great video, Living in the Smoky Mountains, we have a nice yr. round spring fed creek. We have tons of black sand & Feldspar & quarts. What's the chance of any gold being in there. I found an out cropping of white quarts on the mountain with black vans, looked like someone blasted & made a mine hole, It smelled of bear, so I didn't try to climb in. I grabbed a few blasted chunks around the entrance, wondering if the black could be silver & how could I know & remove it. I've found gems in the water too. Paradise in the Mountains. Thanks again.