pynchinflint
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I saw your post on your finds for your first year. Congrats and your well on your way to a nice collection. I saw that you may also have some questions on quartz types. I know Molly has described some of the materials to you (Thanks Molly...your a Big help to a number of us 
). Thought I'd try to snap a few pictures of some of the quartz type materials I have found so you can see them side by side. Hope the pics turn out ok and if anyone else sees a need to correct me...please feel free.
First pic.
First row: What I would call just plain old quartz. I have found different shades of color but it is generally a white shade.
Second row: What I would call sugar quartz. Like the name implies, it has a granular texture to it. May be hard to tell by the picture but you would just have to feel it. Seems to be a very low grade material as you can see how badly worn the first point is.
Third row: Milky quartz. Again like the name implies, it is just as white as milk. Seems like a little better material.
Second pic.
First row: Vein quartz. Maybe hard to tell from the picture but if seen in person you would definitely see nice cloudy white striations going through the points.
Second row: Tallahatta quartz(ite). I think this is also a somewhat lower grade of material but I have seen some killer points made of it. I've been told that a lot of this material can be found in SW Alabama.
Third row: The middle point is probably the closest thing I have to being crystal. It does have a nice white vein running diagonally in it. It is not broke. Seems like Molly showed you a much clearer point.
The round rocks on either side of it are what I'd call pre, preforms. The NA's only finished one side of them and gave up for some reason. The one on the left would have been vein quarts and the one the right just plain old quartz. On the site that I found these points, any ravine or washout that I walked in was full of rocks like this. I assume that if the NA's needed a point, they simply walked down to the wash and grabbed a stone to start chipping away at it. The third picture simply shows the other sides of the pre, preforms.
Well hope this helps some. It looks like you may have a couple of these materials in your collection allready. Keep up the good work. And, above all else, thank you for your service!
). Thought I'd try to snap a few pictures of some of the quartz type materials I have found so you can see them side by side. Hope the pics turn out ok and if anyone else sees a need to correct me...please feel free.First pic.
First row: What I would call just plain old quartz. I have found different shades of color but it is generally a white shade.
Second row: What I would call sugar quartz. Like the name implies, it has a granular texture to it. May be hard to tell by the picture but you would just have to feel it. Seems to be a very low grade material as you can see how badly worn the first point is.
Third row: Milky quartz. Again like the name implies, it is just as white as milk. Seems like a little better material.
Second pic.
First row: Vein quartz. Maybe hard to tell from the picture but if seen in person you would definitely see nice cloudy white striations going through the points.
Second row: Tallahatta quartz(ite). I think this is also a somewhat lower grade of material but I have seen some killer points made of it. I've been told that a lot of this material can be found in SW Alabama.
Third row: The middle point is probably the closest thing I have to being crystal. It does have a nice white vein running diagonally in it. It is not broke. Seems like Molly showed you a much clearer point.
The round rocks on either side of it are what I'd call pre, preforms. The NA's only finished one side of them and gave up for some reason. The one on the left would have been vein quarts and the one the right just plain old quartz. On the site that I found these points, any ravine or washout that I walked in was full of rocks like this. I assume that if the NA's needed a point, they simply walked down to the wash and grabbed a stone to start chipping away at it. The third picture simply shows the other sides of the pre, preforms.
Well hope this helps some. It looks like you may have a couple of these materials in your collection allready. Keep up the good work. And, above all else, thank you for your service!
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Here we have to tollerate Rhyolite but, finding quartz is a joy. (if one can find whole points). 
To be honest with you, I didn't even know there was such a thing. There ya go again Molly...teaching me something new 
Cant wait to see some of your other points that you speak of. If you could, I'd sure like to see an example of the quartzite. I may have some of those too.
