 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to be called the Ten-Percenter mine in Teller County, Colorado, by Don Smith Sr. (Bartsch 1987). In the...amazonite plates when they fell consisted of loose smoky quartz crystals, all more or less similar in size...6–9). In fact, it was possible to take a quartz crystal from the lot and insert it into any of the holes...cross-section of the smoky crystals found in the Key-Hole vug (left) and a cross-section of typical smoky quartz crystals...with amazonite crystals (right). that all of the smoky quartz crystals had formerly occupied the diamond-shaped |  | | Journal (issue) | | Our Lucky Monday – a great collecting story Colorado, USA J. Scovil photo. Issue #6 The Collector’s...could be the end of our search for amazonite with smoky quartz. Monday morning, 13 June, things were going...Dorris photo. The Pikes Peak region has been producing amazonite and smoky quartz specimens as well...miarolitic cavities (pockets) in the decomposed Pikes Peak granite. Beginning in 2000, Joe discovered an extensive...combination of smoky quartz with amazonite from Lucky Monday pocket, Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado, USA. 8.2 cm |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorite on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado. Collected by the Dorris family; Tom...Bacher; Reinhold Bacher photo. Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by...own favorite experiences is gazing raptly into a crystal pocket just after it has been opened, and all the...classic locality for spectacularly large apophyllite crystal clusters, which still rank as some of the largest...cleaned off the thaumasite to expose the entire crystal. It is free of damage thanks to the protective |  | | Book | | vugs of crystalline talc. Easily the best extant crystal, a doubly terminated floater found in a talc vug...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted excellent loose ilmenite crystal clusters |
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