colored varieties of quartz
Green quartz One of the rarities of nature, green quartz forms when amethyst from certain deposits is heated to a critical temperature. The color is from Fe 2+ in the approximately octedral interstitial site. Green quartz can be made synthetically by adding Be 2+ to the tetredral site which allows more Fe 2+ into the interstitial site from the coupled substitution: Si 4+ (t d) = Be 2+ (t d ...