Florissant area (Teller County)
38.9444° N, 105.2900° W · ± 10 km
Microcline and Smoky quartz from Colorado, United States, with photos of specimens from this locality.
Minerals found here
On the same specimen
1 specimen photo(s) from this locality show quartz with microcline together. The pairing comes from the photographer's file name and label, so the relationship between the two minerals is not specified.
1 specimen photo(s) from this locality show microcline with albite together. The pairing comes from the photographer's file name and label, so the relationship between the two minerals is not specified.
2 specimen photo(s) from this locality show microcline with quartz together. The pairing comes from the photographer's file name and label, so the relationship between the two minerals is not specified.
Microcline at Florissant area (Teller County)
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
- Formula
- KAlSi₃O₈
- Morphology
- Prismatic crystals and plates of crystals; white-capped crystals
- Typical size
- Crystals and plates about 2 to 9 cm
- Color / luster
- Amazonite: pastel blue to blue-green; also white microcline
- Associated minerals
- Smoky quartzalbite
- Surface features
- White microcline caps on terminations
- Availability
- Unknown
- History
- Classic smoky quartz and amazonite combination found in June 1982
Sources: SRC-582
Smoky quartz at Florissant area (Teller County)
Smoky quartz combined with blue-green amazonite, a classic Pikes Peak association
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
- Formula
- SiO₂
- Morphology
- Smoky quartz crystals on and between amazonite crystals
- Typical size
- Photographed cabinet specimen about 12.7 x 7.0 x 6.2 cm
- Color / luster
- Smoky brown to black, translucent
- Associated minerals
- Amazonite (microcline)
- History
- Smoky quartz and amazonite have been collected near Crystal Peak since the 1800s
Geology of the locality
- Setting
- Miarolitic cavities and simple pegmatite pockets in the roughly 1.02 billion-year-old Pikes Peak batholith; material labelled Florissant mostly comes from near Crystal Peak, about 3.5 miles north of the town.
- Host rock
- Pikes Peak granite and pegmatite
- Region
- Colorado
- Country
- United States
Coordinates are those of the community of Florissant. The photo page says the specimen is older classic Florissant material and not from the modern Smoky Hawk claims; Crystal Peak is a separate existing locality in the workbook.
Sources
- SRC-171 · Website
File:Quartz-tmu74a.jpg (Wikimedia Commons; smoky quartz on amazonite, Florissant area)Robert M. Lavinsky · 2010 · Wikimedia Commons - SRC-172 · Website
Mineralogy of the Pikes Peak RegionWikipedia contributors · Wikipedia - SRC-135 · Article
Amazonite and Smoky Quartz Mining on the Smoky Hawk Claim, Teller County, ColoradoDorris, J. · 2015 · New Mexico Mineral Symposium (36th), abstracts pp. 11-12 - SRC-173 · Website
Florissant, ColoradoWikipedia contributors · Wikipedia - SRC-582 · Website
File:Microcline-Quartz-177942.jpgRobert M. Lavinsky · Wikimedia Commons
Draft data from the Provenite workbook. Check entries against the cited sources before relying on them. Photos are open-licence images from Wikimedia Commons; the author and licence are given with each photo.