[Iwonda (OP)]

A few years ago, I took a piece of quartz and several other stones to a rock/mineral show to ask geologist questions about them. All of a sudden, several people were trying to trade or buy what I thought was just a simple piece of blue quartz that I had with me. I was going to trade it for a piece of quartz with gold in it, but a retired geologist talked me out of it. I was told that it appears that the blue in this quartz was not due to inclusions but was being produced by one of the elements that made up its composition which would make it, true blue quartz. So, how rare is true blue quartz?

[Zer0]

Donno bout Blue Quartz...
But You do seem to Own quite a Few Strange & Weird Stones..
Hence you RocK!

P.S. - I Wonder where you go Treasure digging.
🤔

[Iwonda (OP)]

Well, thanks Zer0, there is a lot to this collection that cannot be easily explained or identified. I met a couple of retired scientists at a rock show that told me that it would appear that I've stumbled upon a scientific diamond/gold mine of specimens. You're so right about these stones being strange & weird, I've come across things like quartz with a hardness of 9.0, a hoard of small, elongated garnets and what appears to be a piece of jasper or jade that has somehow morphed into four different minerals. Then there's this blue quartz, even it's a mystery. What's really strange about this is that I did not have to dig for any of this stuff, it was just out in the open waiting to be found, the mummified insects, plants, the marine specimens and the stones, they appear to all be connected to one hell of a mystery.

[Origin]

I've come across things like quartz with a hardness of 9.0

Then you measured it wrong or it is not quartz.

Then there's this blue quartz, even it's a mystery.

Blue quartz is not a mystery.

the mummified insects, plants, the marine specimens and the stones, they appear to all be connected to one hell of a mystery.

Mummified things and fossils are not 'one hell of a mystery'.