How would you extract quartz crystals from a rock without damaging the crystals?
Question by T.O.D.: How would you extract quartz crystals from a rock without damaging the crystals?
Okay, so i have this rock that i found and it has a small cavity in it where i can see quartz crystals, and i was really hoping there was some relatively simple way that I could get the crystals away from the rock without damaging them.
Best answer:
Answer by Joe
i would use a little tiny i mean tiny chipper about the size of the teeth of a fork and chip away the surrounding rock and then run water to clear it and depending on the structure of the crystal clear away the rest with another piece of quartz.
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