Microcline

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

  

  

  

  

  

  

Amazonite with smoky quartz

Origin: Take 5 Claim, Pikes Peak pegmatite region in Teller County, Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.7 x 3.6 x 3 cm (top left), 5.5 x 4.3 x 3.6 cm (top right), 4 x 3.8 x 3.5 cm (2nd row left), 5.2 x 4.2 x 2.8 cm (2nd row right), 6 x 5.4 x 5 cm (3rd row left), 6.2 x 4.5 x 2.3 cm (3rd row right), 5.4 x 3.3 x 3 cm (4th row left), 4 x 2.3 x 2.3 cm (4th row right), 5.4 x 4.1 x 3.7 cm (5th row left), 6.5 x 5.5 x 2.2 cm
(5th row right), 5 x 3.7 x 3 cm (bottom left), 4.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm (bottom right)

 

  

Amazonite on smoky quartz

  

 

  

Amazonite on smoky quartz

Origin: Madan Shar, Kabul, Afghanistan

Sample size: 6.4 x 5 x 3.3 cm (top), 6 x 5.2 x 3.6 cm (2nd/3rd row), 2.9 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm (4th/bottom row)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Trinityminerals.com

 

Origin: Tazheran Massif, Lake Baikal, Russia

Sample size: 6 x 10 cm

 

Origin: Aja Mountain, Tazheran Massif, Lake Baikal, Russia

Sample size: 5 x 8 cm

 

Origin: Flå, Hallingdal, Norway

Sample size: 3 x 4 x 8 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  

Amazonite

  

Amazonite with smoky quartz

Origin: Konso, Sidamo, Southern Nations and Nationalities Regional State, Ethiopia

Sample size: 7.7 x 7.1 x 4.7 cm (top), 7.4 x 5.3 x 7.2 cm (2nd/bottom row)

 

  

 

  

Amazonite

Origin: Kenticha, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Sample size: 6.3 x 4.8 x 3.6 cm (top), 17.2 x 10.5 x 9.6 cm (bottom)

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone