Liquid-filled rocks form when minerals trap fluids, but depending on their composition they can either be classed as enhydros ...

This process could explain why large gold nuggets are so often associated with quartz veins found in tectonically active areas or even rocks shattered by earthquakes. “In essence, the quartz ...

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.

“We knew from Hubble observations that there must be aerosols—tiny particles making up clouds or haze—in WASP-17 b’s atmosphere, but we didn’t expect them to be made of quartz.

The Lutila Gold Project is located favourably between two of the largest Au-Ag epithermal systems within the Central Slovakia ...

However, while you can mine the other new ores immediately, you can't do anything with cosmic quartz while the whole rock formation is the same shade of brown. Instead, you need to wait until the ...

The 590ft (180m) long path of mainly quartz rocks was possibly laid to enhance the setting of Piles Hill, one of the longest stone rows on Dartmoor. Piles Hill consists of two parallel lines of ...