AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Hampshire > Microcline with Smoky Quartz |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 64941 |
Mineral: | Microcline with Smoky Quartz |
Locality: | Moat Mountain, west of North Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire |
Description: | Blocky 35 mm pale-green amazonite crystal, the green variety of microcline colored by lead impurities, with lustrous transparent smoky quartz crystals to 14 mm embedded in the surfaces of the amazonite crystals. The amazonite color is very pale. Ex. Thomas A. Penney (1934-2019) collection, collected in the 1960s-70s |
Overall Size: | 5x4.5x3 cm |
Crystals: | 3-35 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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