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rob23 Full Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 127 Location: Augusta GA Joined: Jun 4^th, 2023 Gender:	I swear its blue Oct 18^th, 2023 at 1:19pm	Print Post
	I cleaned this chert off and saw a blue crystal. I used a probe, its solid, cleaned some more, no change. The pictures are not showing same color that I see. I tried two camera, different light, including sunlight, and to me its just not as saturated as it is looking at it. I also took the UV, long wave first, short last.

	blue_001.JPG ( 990 KB \| 3 Downloads ) blue_002.JPG ( 1008 KB \| 6 Downloads ) blue_004.JPG ( 1009 KB \| 4 Downloads ) blue_005.JPG ( 726 KB \| 2 Downloads ) blue_006.JPG ( 635 KB \| 2 Downloads ) blue_015.JPG ( 460 KB \| 2 Downloads ) blue_016.JPG ( 456 KB \| 2 Downloads )
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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: I swear its blue Reply #1 - Oct 18^th, 2023 at 8:04pm	Print Post
	Yes, I love the Blue Quartz too. Very pretty color but it is not all that uncommon. The quartz is colored blue by the inclusion of other minerals. Around here it is usually some form of Riebeckite, or the Titanium minerals Rutile or Ilmenite. In other parts of the world it can be other minerals. https://www.mindat.org/min-26723.html


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rob23 Full Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 127 Location: Augusta GA Joined: Jun 4^th, 2023 Gender:	Re: I swear its blue Reply #2 - Oct 19^th, 2023 at 1:24am	Print Post
	You know, this was the first time I've ever seen blue quartz. It was surprising and really neat to see that little flash of blue. Thanks for the link-


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: I swear its blue Reply #3 - Oct 20^th, 2023 at 9:16am	Print Post
	Yeah that some pretty blue quartz there. I agree with Joe, although I would add that I believe it's more uncommon than it is common. Just maybe more on the common side of uncommon. And it also depends on where you live in the world as I suppose it could be potentially more common in Spain. Nice photos!

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