A practical guide to lighting, backgrounds, scale references and colour accuracy so your quartz photographs serve both identification and sale.

A practical county-by-county guide to UK quartz localities, from Cornish mine tips and Welsh lead rakes to Cairngorm granite and pebble beaches, with permission and safety notes.

Twelve practical details to record — locality, dimensions, damage, provenance, photographs and catalogue number — before a quartz specimen goes into storage, plus labelling and storage tips.