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Tangerine quartz

Tangerine quartz

By Tehmina Goskar on January 8, 2006 in minerals, wonder
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TweetYesterday, I bought an amazing bed of tangerine quartz. Today, I have been trying to find out what causes the fabulous tangerine-orange hue. The colouring is translucent and comes from the surfaces of the quartz, rather than from the inclusion of a foreign mineral within. Tom (my extremely excellent other half) asked about what causes [...]

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