Kopalnia zegarków: Tik-Tak City: Góry Kwarcowe / Quartz Mountains / Quartzgebirge: Maciejowiec

"Góry Kwarcowe w Parku Narodowym Gór Izerskich"

"Nieskazitelna czystość, silny połysk sprawiły, że był on często utożsamiany z diamentem [...] Jest minerałem nadzwyczaj odpornym na działanie kwasów i zasad. Rozpuszcza się jedynie w kwasie fluorowodorowym.

Niekiedy występują w kryształach inkluzje obcych minerałów: goethytu (kwarc gwiaździsty), złota, pirytu, rutylu, turmalinu..."
[http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryszta%C5%82_g%C3%B3rski]

"The symmetry of a crystal is constrained by the requirement that the unit cells stack perfectly with no gaps. There are 219 possible crystal symmetries, called crystallographic space groups. These are grouped into 7 crystal systems, such as cubic crystal system (where the crystals may form cubes or rectangular boxes, such as halite shown at right) or hexagonal crystal system (where the crystals may form hexagons, such as ordinary water ice)."

"The word crystal is derived from the Ancient Greek word κρύσταλλος (krustallos), meaning both “ice” and “rock crystal”, from κρύος (kruos), "icy cold, frost"..."
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal]

"Throughout the world, varieties of quartz have been, since antiquity, the most commonly used minerals in the making of jewelry and hardstone carvings..."

"The word "quartz" is derived from the German word "quarz" and its Middle High German ancestor "twarc", which probably originated in Slavic (cf. Czech tvrdý ("hard"), Polish twardy ("hard")). (Czech miners called it křemen). Other sources attribute the word's origin to the Saxon word Querkluftertz, meaning cross-vein ore.

Quartz is the most common material identified as the mystical substance maban in Australian Aboriginal mythology. It is found regularly in passage tomb cemeteries in Europe in a burial context, such as Newgrange or Carrowmore in the Republic of Ireland. The Irish word for quartz is grian cloch, which means 'stone of the sun'. Quartz was also used in Prehistoric Ireland, as well as many other countries, for stone tools; both vein quartz and rock crystal were knapped as part of the lithic technology of the prehistoric peoples"
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz]