Quartz is an abundant and important mineral in the crust that occurs in a wide range of geological environments. Crystalline quartz records the geo-environmental evolutions, and because of its abundance, is a perfect pathfinder mineral to reveal changes of the physical-chemical conditions. As the main gangue mineral in magmatic, transitional magmatic-hydrothermal, and hydrothermal deposits, its trace element abundance and distribution has been increasingly utilized for genetic classifications and to reconstruct the physicochemical conditions during quartz formation (
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