I've found all the other differences for my homework but I need help with this one so I can ID them on a test. What identifying features will make one stand apart from the other?
This Site Might Help You. RE: Where can one find quartz crystal in nature? For spiritual purposes, I would like to find a quartz crystal not in a shop but in the wilderness. What is a good geological environment where crystals can be found. In such a place, where would one look, pan, dig, etc? I would like to find 1 big one that fits in the palm of the hand, as well...
Most of Texas is calcium carbonate from the shallow sea that covered us in the Cretaceous. So you will have a hard time finding anything in Texas. The Arbuckle Mountains in Oklahoma are igneous in nature but are covered by this limestone. There is an outcrop of granite at Ten Acre Rock near Troy, OK, but I highly doubt there will be the crystals as big as you want. Futher south near Austin is the Town Mountain Granite. These crystals can get rather large, but again, they are within the rock itself and I have yet to see individual crystals in Texas or Oklahoma. Those types of quartz crystals are formed from precipitation in hydrothermal veins usually or in geodes. Large crystals needs space to grow and in a magma, those crystals will interlock with other crystals. To get individual crystals, you need dry space like voids.
Anywhere you can find limestone you can find crystals. Quartz crystals will grow in voids in limestone from water leaching out the silica in the limestone. Herkimer, New York is the only place in the world where you can find Herkimer Diamonds. Some people say that Herkimer Diamonds are the finest quartz crystals you can find. I have gone there twice to mine for the crystals, it is VERY hard work. You have to move tons of limestone to just find a handful of crystals. On my second trip there I got lucky and hit a very big pocket that contained over 2000 crystals of all sizes, have not needed to go back there since. Good luck!
