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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 76598 |
| Mineral: | Microcline, Albite and Smoky Quartz |
| Locality: | Sentinel Rock, west of Bear Creek Canyon, 5.5 km S of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado |
| Description: | Blocky tan-colored microcline crystals to 22 mm intermixed with lustrous medium-smoky quartz crystals to 32 mm. Most of the microcline crystals have overgrowth of lustrous translucent colorless albite crystals to 1 mm. One quartz crystal is chipped. Collected ca. 1975 |
| Overall Size: | 10.5x9x4 cm |
| Crystals: | 0.5-32.0 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
| Buy similar: |  Minerals from Rocky Mountain States, USA > Feldspars: Microcline, Orthoclase, Albite |
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