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Muscovite


Muscovite : KAl2[(OH)2|AlSi3O10]

Photo Copyright © 2002, Keith Wood. Use by permission only.  - This image is copyrighted. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited.
Locality: Martin Marietta Quarry (11th Street Quarry), Hickory, Catawba Co., North Carolina, USA
3.2x3.0cm cluster of sharp muscovite crystals. The sugary dark green areas between some crystals and the tiny reflective specks on some crystals are chlorite. From the same find as the kainosite crystals. Collected Dec. 1999 by Keith Wood on the new part of bench two. Photographed by and in the collection of Keith Wood.

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