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You can buy a few rose quartzes or light a few candles and if it’s meaningful for you, keep it; if not, it’s not like you went through a full religious conversion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2019
These metalliferous quartzes cannot be further from the coast than a maximum distance of fourteen miles, and the broad, smooth watercourse, with its easy gradients, points it out as the site of the future tramway.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The quartz sand may well have been derived from the granitic quartzes, but that is an uncertain matter.
From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by James William Head
The island-formation is that of the opposite coasts, Midian and Sinai, grey granite dyked with decaying porphyritic trap, and everywhere veined with white and various-coloured quartzes.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Granites differ in colouring because the minerals that compose them, the feldspars, quartzes, micas, and hornblendes, have each so wide a range of colour.
From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Julia Ellen Rogers
