Chinese researchers discovered a massive, high-purity quartz deposit in the Dinggye area of the Tibet autonomous region. By analyzing local leucogranites, scientists successfully extracted impurities to achieve a silicon dioxide purity of 99.995%.


China Finds Critical Quartz In Tibet

Scientists for the very first time have detected quartz particles within the atmosphere of an exoplanet. The groundbreaking discovery was made by astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope.

Scientists detect quartz particles in an exoplanet in major breakthrough

Thousands of people were lured to a South African village in hopes of finding expensive diamonds. But as the story unfolded, the stones which ignited mass-hysteria turned out to be ordinary quartz, far cheaper than what people were hoping to unearth.

'Diamonds' that caused mass-hysteria in South Africa turn out to be quartz

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