AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Hampshire > Quartz var. Smoky Quartz on Albite with Muscovite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 63164 |
Mineral: | Quartz var. Smoky Quartz on Albite with Muscovite |
Locality: | Moat Mountain, west of North Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire |
Description: | Lustrous transparent smoky quartz crystals to 23 mm in platy white albite crystals to 16 mm with silvery muscovite mica crystals to 1 mm scattered over the surfaces of the albite and smoky quartz. Four smoky quartz crystals are in parallel orientation. Ex. Thomas A. Penney (1934-2019) collection, collected in the 1960s-70s. |
Overall Size: | 8.5x8x4.5 cm |
Crystals: | 0.5-23.0 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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