AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Hampshire > Microcline with Smoky Quartz |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 57924 |
Mineral: | Microcline with Smoky Quartz |
Locality: | Moat Mountain, west of North Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire |
Description: | Blocky 40 mm pale-green microcline crystal intergrown with lustrous transparent smoky quartz crystals to 10 mm. The microcline crystal has surfaces composed of many smaller lustrous parallel crystal faces that reflect light simultaneously. Ex. Thomas A. Penney (1934-2019) collection, collected in the 1960s-70s. |
Overall Size: | 5.5x4x3 cm |
Crystals: | 2-40 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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