Microcline gallery

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Nice microcline crystals are commonly found in Conway granite miarolitic cavities and less frequently in pegmatite bodies.
MICROCLINE Boulder field locality, N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH	Locality: Boulder field locality, N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH Specimen Size: 8 cm crystal. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 419 Notes: This microcline crystal has a thin tan limonite coating.
MICROCLINE Folsom Brook locality, Ossipee, NH	Locality: Folsom Brook locality, Ossipee, NH Specimen Size: 7 cm specimen. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 399 Notes: Markers with crystal face indicies have been applied to this specimen, (hopefully correctly!). Large microcline crystals are good subjects for face index studies.
MICROCLINE Boulder field locality, N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH	Locality: Boulder field locality, N. Sugarloaf Mtn., Bethlehem, NH Specimen Size: 3.5 cm crystal. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 422 Notes: Markers with crystal face indicies have been applied to this specimen, (hopefully correctly!).
MICROCLINE Government Pit, Albany, NH	Locality: Government Pit, Albany, NH Specimen Size: 6 cm specimen. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 616 Notes: These microcline crystals have a thin tan limonite coating with a few black pyrolusite dendrites.
MICROCLINE Bald Mtn. Ossipee, NH	Locality: Bald Mtn. Ossipee, NH Specimen Size: 3.6 cm Baveno twin microcline crystal. Field Collected: Bob Janules Catalog No.: 885 Notes:
MICROCLINE Knox Mtn. Ossipee, NH	Locality: Knox Mtn. Ossipee, NH Specimen Size: 3 cm specimen with prominent Baveno twin crystal and small smoky quartz crystals. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 694 Notes:
MICROCLINE Folsom Brook locality, Ossipee, NH	Locality: Folsom Brook locality, Ossipee, NH Specimen Size: 4 cm crystal group with thin glassy albite over-growth. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 607 Notes:
MICROCLINE Folsom Brook locality, Ossipee, NH	Locality: Folsom Brook locality, Ossipee, NH Specimen Size: 4.7 cm crystal group. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 403 Notes:
MICROCLINE Classic "Smoky quartz area", Moat Mtn. Albany, NH	Locality: Classic "Smoky quartz area", Moat Mtn. Albany, NH Specimen Size: 9 cm specimen. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 101 Notes:
MICROCLINE Wheeler Mtn., Winchester, NH	Locality: Wheeler Mtn., Winchester, NH Specimen Size: 12 cm single microcline ctystal. Field Collected: Tom Mortimer Catalog No.: 1281 Notes: From a contact metamorphic environment.
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