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  • Smoky quartz from St. Gotthard, Switz.
    In silica mineral: Solubility of silica minerals

    Known as glass sands, these strata are important economic sources of silica for glass and chemical industries. Quartz-bearing strata are abundant in metamorphic terrains. The reincorporation of free silica into complex silicates and the solution and redeposition of silica into veins is characteristic of such terrains.

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