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Microcline from
Rock Springs Canyon, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Canyon
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Titanite4
Albite4
Opal2
- var Opal-AN 2
Quartz2
- var Smoky Quartz 1
Chlorite Group1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rock Springs Canyon, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1036404
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1036404:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
39.2km (24.4 miles) Rusted Revolver Prospect, Orogrande, Orogrande Mining District (Jarilla Mining District), Otero County, New Mexico, USA
50.0km (31.0 miles) El Paso Mine, Franklin Mountains (Franklin Range), El Paso County, Texas, USA
57.8km (35.9 miles) Fusselman Canyon, Franklin Mountains (Franklin Range), El Paso County, Texas, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts N orth America has produced some...as the J. Keating Company stone quarry), Bristol County, Massachusetts. Rather than a granite pegmatite...chlorite, 11.5 cm tall, Acushnet quarry, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Maine Mineral and Gem Museum specimen...quarry, and Old Bluestone quarry), Acushnet, Bristol County, Massachusetts (fig. 2). I drove to the north side...chlorite, 7.1 × 5.0 × 3.5 cm, Acushnet quarry, Bristol County, Massachusetts, the number two apatite from the
Journal (issue)
cavity. The only locality data was given as Blaine County, Idaho. The specimen was probably from the collection...1995), but found no location of ferberite in Blaine County. So I went Fig. 1 Ferberite showing twinning,... microcrystals, Corral Creek, Camas County, Idaho. Continued on page 9 Denver Shows of 2001 Continued...Ream Dennis Beals reports that the Fresnillo District, Mexico is not closed like I wrote last month, although...apophyllite (not of heulandite) from a new find in Custer County, Idaho. These pseudomorphs are quite spectacular
Book (volume)
Director The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter...GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 ct), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 ct), Illinois; square...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...established by Dr. George F. Kunz, of Tiffany & Company, New York City, whose famous Gems and Precious Stones
Book (volume)
Director The Bowers Museurn of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C...GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 et), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 et), Illinois; sqmu·e...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...established by Dr. George F. Kunz, of Tiffany & Cornpany, New York City, whose farnous Gems and Precious Stones...taking place in older deposits and the discovery of new deposits in various places, especially in regard
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Topography General statement Lost River Range Thousand Springs Valley and adjacent areas Pahsimeroi Valley Lemhi...Jefferson dolomite along a ridge between Mahogany and Rock creeks 1133 4.—Section in Kinnikinic quartzite in...profiles 1085 2.—Views in the Pahsimeroi Mountains and Thousand Springs Valley 1090 3.—Special features of...once widely distributed on the flanks of the mountains and are still plentiful in the northwestern corner...may have helped locally to guide erosion of the mountains. Some of the faults have displacements of thousands
 
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