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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Amazonite and Smoky Quartz, Crystaljack Mines, Florissant, Teller County, Colorado - 8.5 x 5.5 x 9 mm

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Amazonite and Smoky Quartz, Crystaljack Mines, Florissant, Teller County, Colorado

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Amazonite and Smoky Quartz, Crystaljack Mines, Florissant, Teller County, Colorado

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Amazonite and Smoky Quartz, Crystaljack Mines, Florissant, Teller County, Colorado