Specimen #363
Name: Amazonite and Smoky Quartz
Type: Mineral
Locality: Crystaljack Mines, Florissant, Teller County, Colorado, USA
Favorite? N
Fluorescent? N
Size: 8.5 x 5.5 x 9 cm
Weight: 317
Acquired: 2007-02-05
Source: Pinnacle 5 Minerals
Label: Y
Comment: Tucson. Due to tremendous pressures inherent in the formation of crystal pockets within the pegmatites of the Pike’s Peak batholith, many pockets have undergone a violent, explosive rupture phase which breaks the amazonite and smoky quartz crystals from the pocket walls and deposits them in a jumble of crystals and shards on the floor of the cavity. Subsequent weathering and pocket collapse over nearly 1 billion years of geologic time have further disrupted these pegmatite crystal pockets. Thus nearly 100% of the large miniature to cabinet sized specimens of amazonite/smoky quartz from the Pike’s Peak region require some measure of repair or restoration.
Minerals: Amazonite Smoky Quartz - brown to black
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