| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Connecticut > Microcline |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 18335 |
| Mineral: | Microcline |
| Locality: | Gillette Quarry, Haddam Neck, Middlesex County, Connecticut |
| Description: | Locality collectors take notice: a pegmatite specimen with a 4 cm microcline crystal nicely exposed. The crystal is fractured but completely intact. From a famous locality first opened around 1900, now in the middle of residential houses and closed. |
| Overall Size: | 7x7x6 cm |
| Crystals: | 4 cm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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