Quartz: Deposits, Mineralogy and Analytics

1. Classification, Mineralogy and Industrial Potential of SiO2 Minerals and Rocks
Jens Götze

2. Assessment of High Purity Quartz Resources
Reiner Haus, Sebastian Prinz, Christoph Priess

3. Quality Requirements of Quartz Sand in the Building Industry
Hartmut B. Walther

4. Petrological and Chemical Characterisation of High-Purity Quartz Deposits with Examples from Norway
Axel Müller, Jan Egil Wanvik, Peter M. Ihlen

5. Evaluation of the Potential of the Pegmatitic Quartz Veins of the Sierra de Comechigones (Argentina) as a Source of High Purity Quartz by a Combination of LA-ICP-MS, ICP, Cathodoluminescence, Gas Chromatography, Fluid Inclusion Analysis, Raman and FTIR spectroscopy
Giulio Morteani, Florian Eichinger, Jens Götze, Alexandre Tarantola, Axel Müller

6. Brazilian Quartz Deposits with Special Emphasis on Gemstone Quartz and its Color Treatment
Ricardo Scholz, Mario L. S. C. Chaves, Klaus Krambrock, Maurício V. B. Pinheiro, Sandra B. Barreto, Messias G. Menezes

7. First-Principles Calculations of the E′

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Center in Quartz: Structural Models, 29Si Hyperfine Parameters and Association with Al Impurity
Zucheng Li, Yuanming Pan

8. Gamma-Irradiation Dependency of EPR and TL-Spectra of Quartz
Michael Plötze, Dieter Wolf, Matthias R. Krbetschek

9. Analysis of Low Element Concentrations in Quartz by Electron Microprobe
Andreas Kronz, Alfons M. Kerkhof, Axel Müller

10. In Situ Analysis of Trace Elements in Quartz Using Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry
Belinda Flem, Axel Müller

11. Cathodoluminescence Microanalysis of the Defect Microstructures of Bulk and Nanoscale Ultrapure Silicon Dioxide Polymorphs for Device Applications
Marion A. Stevens-Kalceff

12. Trace Element Characteristics, Luminescence Properties and Real Structure of Quartz
Thomas Götte, Karl Ramseyer

13. Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Cathodoluminescence of Authigenic Quartz from Different Sedimentary Rocks
Jens Götze

14. Cathodoluminescent Textures and Trace Elements in Hydrothermal Quartz
Brian Rusk

15. Quartz Regeneration and its Use as a Repository of Genetic Information
Ulf Kempe, Jens Götze, Enchbat Dombon, Thomas Monecke, Mikhail Poutivtsev

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