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Every Rock Has A Story - Hot Springs Quartz
These spectacular quartz crystals formed from hydrothermal solutions within voids in quartz sandstones in the central fold belt of the Ouchita Mountains (an extension of the Appalachians) near Hot Springs Arkansas, forming between 200 and 300 million years ago!



