what do you mean by color tint? It would look like emerald or sapphire, but tinted (so darker in appearance, not white)?
White light is a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow.
If you crush a red crystal, you will get a red powder.
If you crush an orange crystal, you will get an orange powder.
If you crush a yellow crystal, you will get a yellow powder.
If you crush a green crystal, you will get a green powder.
et cetera.
Almost all pure compounds form crystals, and light can penetrate them to a greater or lesser degree without being scattered. In other words, they are "clear", meaning transparent. "Clear" is not the same thing as "colorless". If some frequencies of light are absorbed more than others, the crystal will have a color, but still be transparent. Example: "A clear, red crystal." Although the light passes through these crystals, it will almost always be bent at the edge of the crystal where it passes from air to the crystalline substance. Since all the photons are bent in the same direction, the image we see through it is not distorted. When you are looking at a pile of millions of tiny crystals, the light is bent in a different direction by each of them, since they are lying in different orientations. If the crystals are colorless, then the light that you see is a mixture of all frequencies, so it looks white.