| Locality type: | Road |
| Classification |
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| Species: | Microcline |
| Formula: | K(AlSi3O8) |
| Comments: | Usually with graphic quartz inclusions, grains reach several cm. |
| Habit: | anhedral grains |
| Colour: | white |
| Quality for species: | Rock forming mineral/non-crystalline/little interest for collectors.(##) |
| Abundance at site: | Very common |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Visually Identified |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Muscovite | β1 photo of Microcline associated with Muscovite at this locality. |
| Albite | β1 photo of Microcline associated with Albite at this locality. |
| Quartz | β1 photo of Microcline associated with Quartz at this locality. |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Microcline data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Flanders Road (Brushy Hill), Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 857282 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:857282:0 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | f586bc15-35da-4f6e-8591-bfa845776315 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Microcline |
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| 2.8km (1.7 miles) | βWoodbury pegmatite quarry (Judson Quarry), Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 4.7km (2.9 miles) | βNonnewaug River Industrial Park, Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 9.4km (5.9 miles) | βMorris Dam Quarry (East Morris Dam), Morris, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 11.2km (7.0 miles) | βRockside Quarry (Mine Hill Quarry), Mine Hill (Ore Hill), Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 11.9km (7.4 miles) | βState Route 8 exit 37, Watertown, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 12.2km (7.6 miles) | βReynolds Bridge, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 15.8km (9.8 miles) | βThomaston Dam railroad cut, Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 15.9km (9.9 miles) | βThomaston Dam pegmatite, Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 16.1km (10.0 miles) | βLitchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA |
| 17.3km (10.8 miles) | βCurtis Quarry (Southford Quarry; Southford pegmatite; Southbury rose quartz quarry; Bridgeport Woodfinishing Co. Quarry; Hulls Hill), Southford, Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA |
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