Natural thermoluminescence determination was made for quartz of different ore- forming stages from the Xiangshan uranium deposit,and natural thermoluminescence characteristics of quartz samples were studied in combination with XRFS and EPR data. The results show that quartz samples of different ore-forming stages exhibit notable-differences in such aspects of natural thermoluminescence as its intensity and peak sha-pe characteristics of its spectral line. Quartz thermoluminescence results from the centers whose quantity is bound up with total amounts of uranium and thorium. Thethermoluminescence intensity of quartz is in inverse growth and decline relationshipwith the color of quartz,and the peak shape characteristics of the thermoluminescencespectral line represent the formation temperature of quartz and the thermal events thatthe quartz experienced after its formation.