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 Post subject: Can you please help me identify this crystal?
PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 5:14 pm 
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Just need a bit of help identifying these little beauts! I was camping in the mountains last week and my husband and I found several of these crystals on top of a basin. Location, Alberta, Canada.


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 Post subject: Re: Can you please help me identify this crystal?
PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 11:12 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Can you please help me identify this crystal?
PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:02 am 
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Another one.


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 Post subject: Re: Can you please help me identify this crystal?
PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:26 pm 
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All looks like quartz to me
Here are a few simple ways to test
https://isgs.illinois.edu/outreach/geol ... ntify-them


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 Post subject: Re: Can you please help me identify this crystal?
PostPosted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 3:08 pm 
Looking at the last pic, it looks like quartz as it is colorless, transparent, or translucent.


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 Post subject: Re: Can you please help me identify this crystal?
PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2023 5:54 pm 
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Looks like quartz with pyrite...or gold but you would have to test the gold. Or try scratching off a little. If you can actually scrape off a peeling of it easily then could be gold.


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