Vote for your favorite mineral in #MinCup26! - Quartz vs. Asagiite
It's a classic vs a newbie as the most common named mineral in the crust Quartz is up against an exceedingly-rare sea foam-green mineral discovered just a few years ago Asagiite.
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Quartz from
Shilling Intrusion, Fogang County, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China


Locality type:Intrusion
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shilling Intrusion, Fogang County, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1331926
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1331926:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
61.6km (38.3 miles) ⓘZhouwu deposit, Yingde City, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China
62.4km (38.8 miles) ⓘXiniu mining district, Yingde City, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China
78.3km (48.7 miles) ⓘXinzhou Au deposit, Qingxin District, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China
82.4km (51.2 miles) ⓘWengyuan W deposit, Wengyuan Co., Shaoguan, Guangdong, China
85.6km (53.2 miles) ⓘLishan Fe-polymetallic deposit, Boluo Co., Huizhou, Guangdong, China
86.5km (53.7 miles) ⓘXinfeng deposit, Wengyuan Co., Shaoguan, Guangdong, China
90.6km (56.3 miles) ⓘDabaoshan Mine, Qujiang District, Shaoguan, Guangdong, China
91.0km (56.6 miles) ⓘChanggangling Bi-W deposit, Yingde City, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China
91.1km (56.6 miles) ⓘHongling Mine, Wengyuan Co., Shaoguan, Guangdong, China
References
Liu, C., Chen, X., Wang, R., Hu, H. & Wang, D. 2003. Characteristics and origin of the Shilling sodalite syenite, Conghua City, Guangdong Province. Geological Review, 49, 28-39.
Wang, Q., Zhao, Z. H., Jian, P., Xiong, X. L., Bao, Z. W., Dai, T. M., ... & Ma, J. L. (2005). Geochronology of Cretaceous, A-type granitoids or alkaline intrusive rocks in the hinterland, South China: constraints for late-Mesozoic tectonic evolution. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 21(3), 795-808.
He, Z. Y., & Xu, X. S. (2012). Petrogenesis of the Late Yanshanian mantle-derived intrusions in southeastern China: response to the geodynamics of paleo-Pacific plate subduction. Chemical Geology, 328, 208-221.
 
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