<u>Quartz is a resistant mineral whose hardness is 7, according to the Mohr's hardness scale</u>. It is made up of silicon and oxygen and very abundant on the earth's continental crust, after feldspar. It is a very hard mineral that crystallizes in the hexagonal system.
<u>It cannot be scratched by a copper penny and also cleavage is absent. They are the most stable rocks that resist weathering and erosion</u>.
Thus, it is a very important mineral that forms the majority of sedimentary igneous and metamorphic type of rocks.
