Pure quartz, or “rock crystal” from Brazil. Source: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 Pick up a rock almost anywhere on Earth and chances are pretty good that there’s at least some quartz in it.

However, such pure quartz is rare—it can only be found ... s bounty of pegmatites—igneous rock that’s chock-full of quartz ...

Mining operations for the ultra-pure quartz at Spruce Pine, North Carolina, have yet to return to their pre-Hurricane Helene production levels. When Helene ripped through western North Carolina, it ...

A slice of quartz ground to a prescribed thickness that vibrates at a steady frequency when stimulated by electricity. The tiny crystal, about 1/20th by 1/5th of an inch, creates the computer's ...

Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the few places in the world for mining high-purity quartz, a key component needed for making microchips, solar panels and fiber-optic cables. But destruction ...

Here we go: Coal And Pure Quartz – I am doing both of these on the same map. Coal, circled in red below, can generally be found more often in desert biomes, though it is also scattered through ...

This month's full moon in Taurus will peak on Nov. 15 at 4:28 p.m. ET. The best time to charge crystals for the full moon is ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

This, along with its short orbital period of just 3.7 Earth-days, makes the planet ideal for transmission spectroscopy ... if they are made of quartz. While these crystals are probably similar ...

Special mention should be made of the brakes. The CX-80 uses 347mm ventilated discs up front and has 328mm ventilated discs ...

Taurus, known for its determination and love for comfort, can benefit from Rose Quartz and Green Aventurine crystals. Rose Quartz fosters self-love while Green Aventurine encourages taking chances.