Ilustrated Quartz Crystal Guide

Click on a letter to find a crystal type, inclusion, or shape

then... click any link in the list for photos and metaphysical properties

(or just scroll down the page a bit to see the index table)

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Quartz crystals are natural modulators, transmitters, and containers of the Universal Life Force.  As they are grown within the earth, they take unique shape and often gather inclusions of other minerals that affect their abilities to modify, store, and transmit the Life Force. We offer here a constantly updated but always seemingly incomplete listing of quartz shapes, inclusions, and crystal arrangements, along with their generally accepted definitions and metaphysical properties. Quoted material is used with permission from "The Buyer's Guide" by LS Hersh, ISBN 0-9705865-0-7, used with author's permission.

The metaphysical properties of the shapes are those based on the shape of the crystals, their relationships to other crystals, the properties of their inclusions, or the commonly accepted uses by crystal healers and practitioners. Be aware however, that the metaphysical properties are not necessarily consistent with every book or article you might read. Keep an open mind. 

There are many viewpoints in the world, and you must sift through them to find your truth. What is right for one person, is not necessarily what is best for another. Also, be aware that a crystal formation may well be good for something for most people, but others may have discovered new energies and uses.

For example, a cabinetmaker may well see a screwdriver as a tool used to install and remove screws. He or she is right. However, a painter may see it as an excellent paint can opener. Both are right. The list is a starting point on your voyage of discovery.  

 

 

Quartz Type	Physical Description
7-3 Channeling	No longer used. See Channeling.
7-3-7-3-7-3	No longer used. See Dow.
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Abundance	"Host or 'mother' point with at least nine other p;oints (or doubly-terminated crystals)around the base, vertically. Quite Rare."  The smaller crystals are usually less than 10 percent of the size of the larger crystal.
Actinolite Quartz	Quartz included with green actinolite. Historically known as Thetis' Hair Stone. Usually now found as opaque green stones. Transparent material is extremely rare. Faceted gemstones are sometimes avaialble on rare gem Web sites. When cut en cabochon, this is sometime incorrectly called "cat's eye jade." Actinolite is an asbestos mineral. Sometimes Amphibole Angel Quartz is actinolite included, sometimes it is other asbestos minerals.
Activation (left brain)	Activation quartz (left brain) crystal has an inclined main facet that leans to the left.  Often confused with a Time Link, but a Time Link is a 7th facet.
Activation (right brain)	Activation quartz (right brain) crystal has an inclined main facet that leans to the right.  Often confused with a Time Link, but a Time Link is a 7th facet.
Activator Quartz Crystal	See Time Line to the Past or Future.
African Energy Quartz	See Zambian Quartz
Ajoite Quartz	Quartz with an inclusion of Ajoite. Ajoite is an attractive blue/green copper silicate mineral that is named for its type locality in the Ajo District of Pima County, Arizona. It is a secondary mineral that forms from the oxidation of other secondary copper minerals.
Arkansas candle	See Candle Crystal. Candle Crystal – This is a crystal with a ratio of 6 to 1 or greater length to width. It is also know as an Artemis crystal.
Alien Quartz Crystal	See Extra Termination.
Alkali Etchings	See Etched
Amethyst	Quartz colored by iron to a violet color. Our listing of Amethyst
Amethyst Quartz	Violet quartz with whitish stripes. Amethyst quartz is a more compact formation of amethyst, layered and striped with milky quartz.
Ametrine	A mixture of amethyst and citrine in the same stone
Amphibole Angel Quartz	Amphibole quartz is a milky white quartz that contains one or more of the amphibole minerals which are primarily the asbestos silicates. The most common being Actinolite and Tremolite (the others, such as Glaucophane, Hornblende, and Riebeckite, being brown, blue or black.) These are fibrous asbestos minerals and the fibers give the opaque milky appearance. These crystals are also known as angel quartz crystals due to the inclusions sometimes having a wispy effect resembling wings. Angel Quartz is said to also shield someone from the abrasiveness of others. This is especially helpful to those that have been emotionally or verbally abused. Angel Quartz often contains additional inclusions such as Hematite. The inclusions are often red or yellow depending on the included minerals. The angel quartz is sometimes in a phantom. See the photo at the link to the left.
Ancestral Time Line	See Time Line to the Past.
Angel Quartz Crystal	Angel Crystals have a silvery white inclusions that look like angel wings.
Angel Phantom Quartz (Amphibole)	See Amphibole Angel. In this case there is a phantom crystal that is a Amphibole included or coated that is within a more clear quartz crystal showing the typical phantom appearance.
Angel Aura	See Opal Aura
Aperture Quartz Crystal	Also known as Seer Stone or Picture Window
Aqua Aura	Quartz infused with a Gold based coating.
Artemis crystal	See Candle Crystal.
Arkimer Diamond	A diamond shape formation similar to the Herkimer Diamond but mined in Arkansas It is a stout, short DT with a hardness of 7.
Atlantean Temple Quartz Crystal	See Cathedral.
Atlantean Love Star	A carved crystal that has six long tapering sides topped with six identical facets.  Not a natural formation.
Aurora Crystal	A quartz crystal or cluster that has been enhanced with a coating of titanium.
Aventurine	A mostly dark green (sometimes blue ) quartzite ( a rock of crypto crystalline quartz and other materials) with metallic glittery appearance caused by included fuchsite (green mica), or red- to gold-brown caused by hematite leaves. It is sometimes blue if Dumortierite is mixed in. It can also be orange, brown or yellow.
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Brandberg Crystals	Quartz, often Amethyst, from the Gobobos diggings in the Brandberg Mountain in Damaraland, Namibia, Africa. They have a wide variety of features, often being enhydros. Often contain both hematite and lepidochrosite inclusions.
Barnacles Quartz Crystal	"The random outside attachment of several to many smaller crystals to the host."
Beauty Way Quartz Crystal	See Life Path.
Bent Quartz Crystal	A Bent Crystal was broken in the past, then re grown, but the new growth is at an angle to old part, making the crystal bent.
Beta Quartz	Beta Quartz does not exist at a temperate below 573 degrees C.  Some  quartz crystals are pseudo morphs of Beta Quartz crystals.  They are composed of hexagonal dipyramids, which are a pair of opposing six sided pyramids, and the crystals lack prism faces. Technically these crystals are Quartz after Beta Quartz.
Black Onyx	Dyed chalcedony. Real Onyx is banded black and white agate.
Black Shale Phantom Quartz Crystal	See Shale Phantom.
Black Tourmaline Quartz	Quartz with inclusions of black tourmaline.
Bloodstone	Bloodstone is an opaque, dark-green chalcedony with red spots (caused by iron oxide).
Blue Tourmaline Quartz	Quartz with inclusions of blue tourmaline.
Blue Phantom Quartz Crystal	Phantoms that appear gray or blue caused by shale inclusions.  These are from Arkansas and are natural. See Shale Phantom.
Blue Quartz	Manmade product: Quartz bonded with coating of titanium. Sometimes call Siberian Blue Quartz.
Blue Quartz	Natural clear Quartz with Inclusions of crocidolite fibers
Bridge Quartz Crystal	A smaller crystal growing out of another at nearly a right angle with the base of the smaller crystal inside the larger and most of the smaller outside of the larger. If the smaller crystal extends from the larger in both directions, and part of it is completely enclosed within the larger it is not a bridge, it is a Penetrator.  If no section of the smaller one is completely contained within the larger, and both ends protrude, then it is a Cross Crystal. If no part of the smaller crystal is completely enclosed by the larger and only one section extends from the larger crystal, then it is likely a damaged cross unless a clear termination is apparent.
Buddha Quartz Crystal	A crystal with a phantom that looks like a sitting Buddha.
Burr Quartz Crystal	A burr is a completely three dimensional crystal cluster with no base.
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Cactus Quartz	See Spirit Quartz.
Cairngorm	See Smoky Quartz
Candle Quartz	Candle quartz is recognized by a myriad of smaller terminations surrounding a larger central point. The smaller ones are usually poorly defined, looking a bit like dripping candle wax. The sides of a Candle Quartz often look and feel like a pineapple.    If the smaller ones are sharply defined the formation is called an Abundance Crystal.
Candle Crystal	Candle Crystal – This is a crystal with a ratio of 6 to 1 or greater length to width. It is also know as an Artemis crystal.
Carnelian	Carnelian is a chalcendony that ranges in color from yellow-orange to rich, near reddish orange, to orangey brown, and varies from semi-opaque to highly translucent.
Carnelian Onyx	Red and white banded chalcendony
Carved Quartz Crystal	“The Carved (natural) crystal is recognized by the existence of a carved triangular face - the carving outlines the face and is etched such that the location of the engraved portion is normally white in appearance.” ---www.crystalworlds.com
Castellated	See Castle
Castle Quartz Crystal	A castle is a form of twin with many points and extra facets on the tip. Many of the faces will reflect light at the same angle, giving the appearance of a castle. It is a self-healed crystal.  The crystal broke from its matrix or another crystal and continued to grow and heal the rough base or side.  It is similar to a Cathedral but lacks the larger center termination of a Cathedral formation.
Cathedral Quartz Crystal	An opaque crystal formation of one main central point and surrounding parallel ones usually of different widths and lengths, but shorter than the main crystal, all growing on a  common base.  If clear, it is a Lightbrary.
Cat's Eye	White, gray, green, yellow, brown quartz that is cut en cabochon to allow the reflection of fibrous asbestos inclusions to give the appearance of a cat's eye.
Center Point Quartz Crystal	See Generator .
Ceridwen Quartz Crystal	See Isis
Chalcedony	Chalcedony is a catch-all term for cryptocrystalline quartzes (quartz with microscopically small crystals). The name usually refers to semitransparent or translucent chalcedony with a solid color (commonly pale bluish-gray) and nearly wax like luster. Chalcedony is the general term applied to the fibrous crypto crystalline varieties.
Chandelier Quartz Crystal	Crystals from Brazil that have tiny diamond shaped facets around the tip.
Champagne Aura	Champagne Aura are crystals that have been treated with a coating of gold and iron. The coating is very hard and durable.
Channel Quartz Crystal	See Channeling.
Channel Face Quartz Crystal	See Channeling.
Channeling Quartz Crystal	Channeling Crystals have a seven sided facet opposite a three sided one.
Channeling 8 faced	Eight faced Channeling crystals have a eight sided facet or facet opposite a three sided one.
Chard	See Sheet Quartz.
Cherry Quartz	Bright red quartz - this is dyed quartz, not naturally formed.
Chert	Chert is the general term applied to the granular crypto crystalline varieties of quartz, Flint and Jasper are examples.
Chevron Amethyst	Amethyst that has alternating bands of white quartz and purple quartz shaped like chevrons. From Brazil.
Chlorite Quartz	Quartz containing green Chlorite inclusions.
Chimney Crystal	Thin sheet of crystal connecting two crystal points.
Chisel Quartz Crystal	Chisel crystals are wide, relatively flat crystals with wide beveled faces that looks like a chisel.
Chlorite Included	Crystal with inclusions of chlorite.
Chocolate Window Quartz Crystal	Quartz from Chinese mine that has some edges darkened by Hematite.  Not a Window Quartz.
Chrysocolla	Blue to blue-green, opaque to near transparent expensive chalcendony Its color agent is copper.
Chryosprase	Chrysoprase is the bright apple green translucent chalcedony (a crypto crystalline quartz)
Citrine	Light yellow to dark yellow quartz colored by iron. Natural citrines are mostly pale yellow. Most commercial citrines are heat-treated amethyst. They are much brighter yellow. Prasiolite: Leek-green. Prasiolite is not found in nature. Heat treated violet amethyst or yellowish quartz turns into leek-green prasiolite.
Cluster Quartz Crystal	Many crystal points growing together in a base.
Color Veils	See Rainbow.
Colorado Diamonds	See Smoky Quartz
Comet Crystal	A comet crystal has a grouping of indentations on or more sides that have trailing, spraying edges appearing like a comet.
Color Veils Quartz Crystal	See Rainbow.
Companions Quartz Crystala	This is a family of Quartz shapes that includes Twins, Bridge, Inner Child, Penetrator, Soul Mates, Tantric Twins, Twin Flames, Dolphins, and others.  What they all have in common is their duality and their uses in focusing the Universal Life Force on the relationship between two people.  No crystal should be identified just as a Companion.  Its specific nomenclature should be used.
Consumption Crystal	A crystal that appears to be consuming another one.  The crystals are aligned.
Convoluted sheet quartz	Convoluted Sheet Quartz is a milky, twisted quartz shape formed over other minerals that often subsequently dissolves, leaving holes and vacancies in the quartz.
Crater crystal	Crater Crystals have a indentation or crater where another crystals was once attached but is now absent.  The crater can be either a crystal or a cluster.  If the indentation is 3 or 6 sided and becomes narrower as it penetrates, the crystal is  Key Crystal.
Creator Crystal	See Manifest.
Crocidolite Quartz	See Tiger Eye
Crocodile quartz	See Elestial.
Cross Quartz Crystal	A Cross is one crystal at growing at right angles to another.  The crossing crystal is joined to the other but does not completely penetrate it.  Also, the terminations of both crystals are separate.  One crystal does not contain the termination of the other.  A Cross is like two matchsticks lying across one another.
Cubic Quartz	Distorted crystals with a (pseudo)cubic appearance. They frequently occur in alpine clefts and are known from Artesia, New Mexico.
Cupid's Arrow Quartz Crystal	Clear quartz included with golden rutile needles. See Rutilated Quartz
Curved Quartz Crystal	A Curved Crystal is one that grew in a curved manner, not one that broke at some point.
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Dendritic Quartz Crystal	Dendritic Quartz contains natural inclusions of manganese oxide that appear to be included ferns.
Devic or Dvic Temple Quartz Crystal	Devic Temples are crystals with internal fracture planes that appear to be horizontal ledges and shelves when the crystal is held vertically. Do not confuse with Fairy Frost.  These are very rare crystals.
Diamond Window Quartz Crystal	A diamond window is crystal with a 6th or 7th face that is a clear, well-formed, symmetrical diamond shape.
Diana Quartz	See Candle Quartz.
Dogtooth Quartz Crystal	A Dogtooth is a short, stocky crystal that is doubly terminated but is essentially just the two terminations.  Looks like a dog’s tooth, hence the name.
Dolphin Quartz Crystal	A Dolphin is a small crystal attached to the side of a larger one, not sharing a common base.
Double Diamond Quartz Crystal	A Double Diamond is a crystal with two diamond windows, usually one above the other.
Double Terminated Quartz Crystal	Double Terminated crystals have two distinct terminations and no base.
Dow Quartz Crystal	A Dow is a crystal with three 7-sided faces, each opposite a 3- sided one.
Dowsing	See Dow.
Dumorierite Quartz	See Aventurine (blue variety)
Drusy Quartz Crystal	A Drusy Crystal has a cluster or clusters of many tiny crystals attached to it.
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Earthkeeper Quartz Crystal	A very large (hundreds of pounds to tons in weight) quartz crystal.
Egalitarian crystal	See Parity Crystal.
Egg shaped	A crystal that has been carved into the shape of an egg.
Eight Faces	See Grounding Crystal.
Elestial Quartz Crystal	Elestial crystals have many natural terminations and folds over a multi layered crystal.  Appears to be wrinkled and feels that too. This is young quartz and is usually smoky in appearance seemingly burnt by a fire.
Elestialated Quartz Crystal	See Elestial.
Empathic Warrior Quartz Crystal	A crystal that has sustained man-made or natural damage.
Empowering Quartz Crystal	Empowering Crystals have one or two main 4-sided faces.  They should not be confused with a Diamond Crystal that has an extra, diamond shaped 7th face.
Enchanted Crystal	See Elestial.
Enhydro Quartz Crystal	A crystal that contains drops of water or other liquids suspended in enclosed small bubbles.
ETQuartz Crystal	An abbreviation for Extra Terminations, not as is sometimes mistaken an abbreviation for Extra Terrestial.
Etched Quartz Crystal	Etched Crystals have external markings that appear to be hieroglyphs inscribed on its sides and or faces.
Extra Terminations Quartz Crystal	An Extra Terminations Crystal, also called ET, has a single termination at one end and multiple ones at the other end.
Extra Terrestrial Quartz Crystal	An unfortunate misunderstanding of the abbreviation ET that stands for Extra Terminations not Extra Terrestrial. See Extra Terminations.
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Faden Quartz Crystal	A Faden is a crystal that has a milky feathery line that runs through the crystal.  The Faden is usually a Tabby Crystal.
Faden Growth Quartz Crystal	See Faden.
Faden Veil Quartz Crystal	See Faden.
Fairy Dust Quartz Crystal	See Barnacle.
Fairy Frost Quartz Crystal	Fairy Frost is a crystal with extensive small, interconnected fractures and inclusions.  If the fractures are distinct and appears like ledges the crystal is a Devic.
Falcon's Eye	See Hawk's Eye
Family Quartz Crystal	A Family is one larger parent crystals with one or more smaller ones.
Female Crystal	A white, milky crystal.
Ferruginous Quartz	A quartz with a coating of natural dark red hematite.
Fire Crystals	See Harlequin.
Fleches d'Amour	Clear quartz included with golden rutile needles. See Rutilated Quartz
Floater	A Floater is a point that naturally broke off of the matrix and continued to grow away from the matrix and shows no matrix contact point.
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Garden Quartz	Quartz included with sand that forms what looks like gardens within the clear quartz.
Gateway	See Seer Stone.
Gem Silica	See Chyrsocolla
Generator	A Generator is a single crystal with 6 sharp facets meeting in a sharp point.
Girasol Quartz	Girasol Quartz has a vitreous translucency which looks like light passing through a thin veil.
Glassback	A Glassback is a Quartz Cluster with a thin base that makes the cluster transparent.
Glitter	Glitter is minute crystals adhering randomly to outside of a host crystal.
Goddess Quartz Crystal	See Isis.
Gold Quartz	Also called Picture Rock. White massive quartz with gold
Golden Healer	Golden Healers are crystals with iron coating on or under the surface of the crystal.  It is a natural process.
Green Amethyst	Heat treated low grade Amethyst. Also called Prasiolite.
Green Chlorite Quartz	See Chlorite Quartz.
Green Quartz	A fake man-made adulteration made using high pressure hot water and chromium.  There is green chlorite included quartz, but bright green on the outside of a quartz cluster is man-made.
Grounding Quartz Crystal	A Grounding crystal is a crystal with an eight-sided face.
Growth Crater	See Key.
Growth Interference Quartz Crystal	Growth Interference crystals have cuts on the sides of the crystal that look they came from a trim saw.  The cuts are from nearby growths of calcite crystals interfering with the quartz crystal growth.
Gwindel Quartz Crystal	Gwindels are stacked, twisted Double Terminated crystals that appear to have a slight to large rotation.
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Harlequin Quartz Crystal	A crystal included with red and silver specks and/or strings of hematite or lepidocrocite and titanium.
Hawk's Eye	Blue-gray to blue green quartz that is reminiscent of the eye of a bird of prey. Hawk’s-eye is similar to tiger eye, except that the crocidolite was replaced by quartz before altering to iron oxide; it therefore retains the gray-blue or green of the asbestos.
Hera - Bottom	A Hera Bottom is a crystal with beveled edges and terry cloth texture on a multi-pointed tail. See Self Healed.
Hera - In Line	See Self Healed.
Herkimer Diamond	Herkimer Diamonds are distinctive crystals only found in Herkimer Co. NW.  They are very transparent, double terminated crystals with a reported hardness of 7.5.
Herkimer shape	Herkimer shape are crystals, usually Tibetan quartz, that form like a Herkimer diamond.
Hematite Quartz	Hematite Quartz has either a coating or included red hematite needles that give the appearance of rust to the quartz. Sometimes this is inappropriately called Strawberry Quartz. Strawberry quartz is a particular kind of hematite included quartz that is is transparent with the included needles of hematite clearly visible.
Himalayan Herkimers	Herkimer shaped crystals from Pakistan.
Himalayan Ice	Pink toned Himalayan deeply etched quartz crystals.
Horn of Plenty Quartz Crystal	A tapered, sometimes curving quartz filled geode.  A formation of quartz, not a crystal.
Huaron Quartz	Huaron Quartz comes from the Huaron District in Peru. Most material is from the Alimon mine. Most of the Huaron Quartz contains hematitie as small red flakes or stains, and cubic pyrite implanted among the quartz crystals. At times Spalerite will be present.
Husband and Wife Quartz Crystal	See Soul Mate.
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In and Out Quartz Crystal	See Penetrator.
Included Quartz Crystal	Included crystals contain other minerals and substances within.
Indigo Quartz	Quartz with inclusions of Indicolite (Blue Tourmaline)
Initiation Crystal	See Channeling.
Inner Child Quartz Crystal	A crystal similar to a bridge in which a small crystal is growing out of a much larger one.  The crystal is mostly contained within the larger one with only a small amount of it extruding. If the smaller one is only slightly included within the larger then the crystal formation is a Bridge.  If the smaller crystal is completely contained within the larger one, it is Manifestation Crystal. Some inner child formations have a very small crystal growing from a much larger one and the appearance is that of a trigger.  These are sometimes called Triggers, they are a form of inner child.
Integration Crystal	See Transmitter
Inter-dimensional Quartz Crystal	Inter-dimensional crystals have a series of smooth, rounded windows that extend across the intersections between the faces on the termination of the crystal.
Iris Quartz Crystal	See Rainbow.
Isis Quartz Crystal	An Isis crystal has a dominant face which is five sided with a tall sharp point rather like an arrowhead.
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Jacare Quartz Crystal	See Elestial.
Japan Law Twin	A crystal in which two single crystals, usually broad flattened prisms, (and one a penetration twin), are joined in the same plane at an angle of about 84 degrees.
Jasper	Jasper is a variety of chert, usually reddish brown due to hematite or goethite impurities.
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Key Quartz Crystal	A key crystal has an indentation in one of its sides that narrows as it penetrates.  This indentation is normally 3 sided, but sometimes 6 sided. Some say it should always have 6 sides, but this view is not widespread.
Kullu Rosies	See Himalayan Ice.
Karur amethyst	Amethyst from Karur “Place of the Sacred Cow,” Southern India in Tamil Nadu. Usually somewhat opaque and rough textured. Uncommon.
Kabdo Quartz	Crystals from Kabdo, Mongolia. Often with black and orange surface staining.
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Laser Quartz Crystal	A Laser is a naturally formed long slender crystal that tapers towards termination.
Lemurian Seed Quartz Crystal	Lemurian Seed Crystals have horizontal striations on one or more sides.  They are found in the Sierra Do Cabral mountain in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Some, but not all, carry a pink to reddish glow.
Lens Quartz Crystal	See Sheet.
Lepidochrosite Quartz	Quartz with inclusions of Lepidochrosite. Often marketed as Strawberry Quartz, but true Strawberry Quartz has hematite inclusions and a marked different appearance. This is actually the same as Red Fire Quartz. The information here is duplicated under that listing.
Level Crystal	See Enhydro.
Library Quartz Crystal	Library quartz crystals have irregular formations of slightly raised flat crystals attached to the sides and faces.  The formations look like books.
Life Path Quartz Crystal	A Life Path crystal is one that is long and thin and one that is clear with one or more absolutely smooth sides.
Lightbrary Quartz Crystal	A Lightbrary is a clear Cathedral Quartz Formation.
Lineated	A Lineated Crystal contains a parallel elevated or sunken rectilinear portion of another crystal.
Lithium Quartz	A name in common trade use for a pink/purple translucent to opaque variety of quartz,may contain lithium based minerals such as Lepidolite.
Little Falls Crystal	See Herkimer Diamond.
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Madagascan Celestial Quartz	See Candle Quartz.
Male crystal	A clear, transparent crystal.
Manganese Phantom	Actually this is Shale Phantom misnamed.  The inclusions are shale not manganese. See Shale Phantom.
Manifest Quartz Crystal	See Manifestation.
Manifest Spirit Quartz Crystal	See Isis
Manifestation Quartz Crystal	A Manifestation is a crystal containing another eye-visible crystal completely within it.
Master Matrix Quartz Crystal	Master Matrix Crystals contain external etchings and/or inclusions and fractures that depict a circle, a square, a triangle.  The circle is the most uncommon shape to find, and a Master Matrix with a clear, well formed circular inclusion or etching is most valuable.
Master Programmer Quartz Crystal	See Master Matrix.
Melody's Stone	See Super Seven Quartz. This is a combination of seven minerals – Amethyst, Cacoxenite, Goethite, Lepidocrocite, Clear Quartz, Rutile, and Smoky Quartz. Also called Sacred Seven, Super Seven, Super 7, Melody's Stone, Kokoshanite and Cacoxinite. It is a form of amethystine quartz. Known from the Espirito Santo region of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Merlin	See Generator.
Morion Quartz	Morion or morion quartz is a dark-brown to black opaque variety of smoky quartz resulting from the natural or artificial irradiation of aluminium-containing milk quartz. When exposed to light for extended time they fade from black to grey. See Smoky Quartz.
Moss Agate	Moss agate is a translucent chalcedony with moss-like inclusions of hornblende or chlorite.
Mother and Child Quartz Crystal	See Dolphin.
Mozambique Lemurian Quartz Crystal	These are Lemurian Crystals that are reported to have been mined in Mozambique. About 300 lbs are reported. Also known as Soul Shepherds. Be aware that we know of no way to identify a Lemurian as being from Mozambique. See Lemurian Seed Crystal.
Mules Foot Quartz Crystal	See Grounding Crystal.
Muse Crystal Quartz Crystal	A Muse is a cluster of nine similar-sized crystals.
Mythic Crystal	Mythic Crystals are opaque milky quartz double-terminated crystals.
Multi Terminated	See Extra Terminations.
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Natural Aura	Opal Aura Crystal mined in Arkansas that are naturally coated with iron oxide.
Naturally Etched	See Etched.
Needle Crystal	Extremely, long thin crystal appearing as a needle.
Nirvana Quartz	See Himalayan Ice.
Numerological Crystal	Any crystal with clearly defined faces.
Nodule	Quartz, like other minerals often grows within a cavity inside a rock.  Often sold as a half sphere to show the design and beauty of the quartz crystals.
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Opal Aura Crystal	A quartz crystal that has been enhanced with a coating of ionized platinum.
Onyx	A black and white agate. Don't confuse with Black Onyx which is dyed chalcedony.
Overcoat (Yin Power) Quartz	A clear quartz crystal with an overgrowth of milky, opaque quartz.
Occluded	Occluded crystals are heavily included crystals.
Osiris Quartz Crystal	A natural smoky quartz Generator.
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Papaya Quartz	Pink colored quartz from Madagascar. The inclusions that cause the orange/red color are unknown but are probably hematite.
Parallel Growth Quartz Crystal	Crystals which overlap as they grow, not showing all six sides.
Parity Crystal	A  cluster of identical sized crystals.
Pearl Aura	See Opal Aura
Penetrator Quartz Crystal	A smaller crystal extending from a larger in both directions, with part of the smaller completely enclosed within the larger.
Penetration Twins	See Penetrator.
Phantom Quartz Crystal	A phantom contains ghost-like image of another crystal within it that are aligned with outer crystal.
Picture Window Quartz Crystal	A small tumbled quartz crystal that has one end polished smooth so the inside of the crystal can be seen.
Pineapple Quartz	see Candle Quartz and Elestial Quartz. Both of these formations are marketed as Pineapple Quartz
Pink Amphibole Papaya Quartz	Pink colored quartz from Madagascar. The inclusions that cause the orange/red color are unknown but are probably hematite.
Pink Lemurian Seed Crystals	see Lemurian Seed Crystals
Pinnacle Quartz Crystal	A crystal with the terminations growing to a long slim pinnacle configuration.
Pixie Dust Quartz Crystal	see Barnacle.
Portal Quartz	See Time Line to Past or Time Line to Future
Projector Quartz Crystal	See Channeling.
Plate bottom Quartz Crystal	A Cluster with a flat bottom. See Cluster
Pocket Quartz Crystal	Massive quartz with depressions that look like pockets.
Prase	Prase: Leek-green. Prase is a leek green chalcedony whose color agent are chlorite inclusions.
Prasiolite	Prasiolite is not found in nature. Heat treated violet amethyst or yellowish quartz turns into leek-green prasiolite. See Green Amethyst
Pseudo cubic	See Cubic.
Pyrite Included Crystal	Quartz with included pyrite crystals.
Purple Flame Quartz Crystal	See Phantom – phantom is violet to purple colored.
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Quantum Quartz Crystal	A cluster of three very similar crystals sharing a common base.
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Rainbow Quartz Crystal	A Rainbow crystal contains inclusions or internal cracks that show a rainbow when viewed from an angle.
Rainbow Aura	See Opal Aura
Receiver Quartz Crystal	A crystal with a single broad sloping face.
Receiver Generator Quartz Crystal	A Generator that has one face that slopes more than the other five.
Record Keeper Quartz Crystal	A Record Keeper is a crystal with clearly etched pyramid shapes on its side or sides. Also called Atlantean Record Keepers.
Record Keeper Raised	See Record Keeper.
Recorder Quartz Crystal	See Record Keeper.
Red Amethyst	Thunder Bay Amethyst with Hematite Inclusions and often some hematite coating. May be enhanced by acid treatments. There is more info here.
Red Quartz	See either Hematite Quartz or Sphalerite Quartz
Red Fire Quartz	See Lepidocrocite Quartz
Red Phantom Quartz Crystal	A misnamed quartz with red inclusions, but not phantoms.
Reverse Scepters	Scepter quartz with inverted scepters.
Rose Quartz	Usually pale pink cloudy quartz. Coloring agent is titanium. Traces of included rutile needles cause six-rayed stars when cut en cabochon.
Root Directory Crystal	See Master Matrix.
Rutilated Quartz	Crystals with included needles of gold or black rutile. Whenn golden, this is sometimes called "Venus Hair Stone" or "Cupid's Arrow."
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Sacred Seven	See Super Seven
Sacred Sigil Crystal	Crystals with etchings that appears to be symbols.
Sceptre Quartz Crystal	A  crystals, where a new quartz crystal forms over and caps a previously formed prismatic crystal.
Scrubber Quartz Crystal	A quartz cluster in which all the points are similar length.
Seer Stone	River tumbled quartz with one end polished. See Picture Window
Selene Quartz Crystal	A crystal with an included veil that appears as a phase of the moon.
Self Healed Quartz Crystal	A self healed crystal has many terminations where it has been broken and then re grown.
Seven faced left	See Channeling.
Seven faced right	See Channeling.
Shale Phantom Quartz Crystal	Quartz containing what appears to be a blue, gray, or black phantom crystal caused by included shale.
Shaman Dow Crystal	A Dow crystal that also contains a white phantom.
Shamanic Dream Crystals	Quartz containing Lodolite,Smoky Quartz, Phantoms and Rutilated Quartz.
Sheet Quartz Crystal	Sheet quartz has a clear flat section often between two crystals.
Shield Quartz Crystal	A crystal with a rare main face having only 6 edges.
Shovel Quartz Crystal	A crystal with a point that slopes downward similar to a shovel.
Siberian Blue Quartz Crystal	Manmade product: Quartz bonded with coating of titanium. Sometimes call Blue Quartz.
Sichuan Quartz	Quartz, some with Lemurian markings, from China. It has black inclusions, some quite large.
Singing quartz	Small laser crystal.
Skeletal quartz	See Elestial.
Skeletal (Herkimer)	"A skeletal has depressed cavern in the center of one of the termination faces.  Skeletals have an interesting pattern of multiple fracture lines running parallel with two or more sides of a face on a diamond.  The lines appear to have occurred during the growth stage and are usually spaced in such a manner to give a three dimensional, holographic look when observed through on face."  ---herkimerdiamonds.com
Smoky Quartz	Naturally dark quartz colored by the crystal’s proximity to naturally radioactive elements within the Earth.
Smoky (Herkimer)	A smoky crystal is a Herkimer Diamond with a very slight gray to black discoloration inside.  This discoloration  is disseminated anthraxolite and sometimes appears as thin wisps of smoke.
Snow Crystals	See Overcoat Quartz
Snow Flake crytals	See Overcoat Quartz
Solution Quartz	See Extra Termination.
Soul mate Quartz Crystal	Contact twin crystals same size NOT growing from common base, each with separate terminations, parallel growth, joined on one side by contact.
Soul Shephard	These are Lemurian Crystals that are reported to have been mined in Mozambique. About 300 lbs are reported. Be aware that we know of no way to identify a Lemurian as being from Mozambique. See Lemurian Seed Crystal.
Spade	A crystal with a small face that looks like the spade figures on a deck of cards. Smaller than a shovel.
Sphalerite Quartz	Quartz that is colored dark red or scarlet by included sphalerite. It can also be black from the sphalerite.
Spiral	Distinct twisting down the axis.
Spirit Guardian	Two attached DT crystals of similar size.
Spirit Quartz	A crystal that has grown so quickly in the long direction that the end faces are not filled in on the crystal aggregates to form a “single” crystal.  Tiny faces terminate each point, all in the same orientation.
Split face	A crystal having the appearance of two adjoining main faces each with 4-6 edges.
Starbrary	Crystal has of glyph like markings or geometric patterns and a key.
Strawberry Quartz	Strawberry Quartz is Quartz with light red iridescent red hematite needles. The best comes from Kazakhstan. The crystal should be clear enough to see the hematite needles. If the crystal is completely opaque it is not strawberry quartz. Beware that pink glass is being marketed as Strawberry quartz. Be careful. Also Quartz with Lepidocrocite is marketed as Strawberry Quartz. See Lepidocrocite Quartz.
Striated	Crystal having one or more parallel growth lines that run along the sides of the crystal.
Super Seven Quartz	A combination of seven minerals – Amethyst, Cacoxenite, Goethite, Lepidocrocite, Clear Quartz, Rutile, and Smoky Quartz. Also called Melody's Stone and Sacred Seven Quartz
Stepped	A crystal having one  or more steps fully formed into one or more facets.
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Tabby	A crystal with two wide sides resulting in a flat crystal It has to be twice as wide as it is thick.
Tabby Chain	A crystal cluster of several tabby points forming together connecting at the sides.
Tabular	See Tabby.
Tabular Composite	A tabular clusters form in pipelines and in sand with no particular direction.
Tangerine Quartz	Naturally orange/yellow quartz crystals. It has a natural coloration caused by hematite.
Tangerose Crystals	Pink Lemurian Crystals that also have a noticeable orange or tangerine cast or blush.
Take Away	See Key.
Tantric Twin	Two crystals same size growing from common base with separate terminations, parallel growth, joined on one side.
Teacher	any crystal that seems to have embedded wisdom of a high order manifest by the appearance of form (human or otherwise)within the crystal.
Teaching Crystal	See Dolphin
Temple Heart	See Dow
Thetis' Hair Stone	Quartz crystals with inclusions of acicular crystals of green actinolite. The actinolite is sometimes altered to a yellow brown color. These are often very dense making the stone appear almost opaque. Note: A stone with bright golden hair like inclusions is likely to be included with rutile not actinolite.
Thunder Bay Amethyst	Unusual Red Amethyst from Canada. Sometimes sold as Red Amethyst
Tibetan Quartz	Quartz that is mined in Tibet.
Tiger Eye	Golden-brown chatoyant quartz formed by the alteration of crocidolite, and consisting essentially of quartz colored by iron oxide.
Time Line to the Future	Often incorrectly called Activation Right. Time Line crystals describe a special kind of quartz crystal that contains a seventh face that is just below the six main faces of the termination. This special face is in the shape of a parallelogram, which is similar to a rectangle turned at an angle leaning right.
Time Line to the Past	Often incorrectly called Activation Left.   Time Line crystals describe a special kind of quartz crystal that contains a seventh face that is just below the six main faces of the termination. This special face is in the shape of a parallelogram, which is similar to a rectangle turned at an angle leaning left. Also known as Ancestral Time Line.
Time Link	See Time Line to the Past or Future.
Titanium Gas Phantoms	A misnamed crystal – titanium does not become a gas.
Trans channeling Quartz Crystal	See Dow.
Transformation Crystal	A crystal that changes its attributes from time to  time.  Can’t be recognized beforehand.
Trigonal or Trigonic	A crystal with Trigons on the face that don’t all point in the same direction.  They often appear wave like with the trigons overlapping each other.
Transmitter Crystal	A crystal with two seven-sided faces separated by a three sided one.
Trigger Crystal	See inner child.
Twin Quartz Crystal	There are several types of twin quartz crystal. Each is listed separately for clarity. See Japan Law Twin, Soul Mate, Twin Flame, & Tantric Twin.
Twin Flame	Two crystals that joined at base but flare out into a V shape.
Twin Inset Quartz Crystal	A crystal formation in which one twin is wrapped in the other. See Tantric Twin.
Twin Souls Quartz Crystal	See Twin, probably Tantric Twin
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Veil	Crystals with inclusions of white, wispy appearances.
Venus Hair Stone	Clear quartz included with golden rutile needles. See Rutilated Quartz
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Wall Crystal	A crystal with a veil that completely divides the crystal.
Wand	A long crystals with at least one faceted point.
Warrior Crystal	See Empathic Warrior.
Window Quartz Crystal	See Diamond and Time Link.
Witches Fingers Quartz	An unusual variety of quartz unique to Zambia. It is usually associated with black actinolite and mica. Its contains tremolite causing a yellowish color.
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X Crystal	See Cross.
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Yin Crystal	Yin Crystal is recognized by veiled cloudiness.
Yin-Yang Crystal	A crystal with a body that is milky white around its base and turns water-clear towards its termination
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Zambian Quartz	Quartz from Zambia. Usually single crystals, often Double Terminated.
Zimbabwe Amethyst	Amethyst from Zimbabwe, Africa. It contains Black Goethite Inclusions.