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Smoky Quartz + Microcline Ben a’ Bhuird, Cairngorm Mountains, Grampian Region, Scotland. 85mm x 53mm x 30mm Specimen of small smoky quartz crystals on microcline. The larger microcline crystal in the centre is 14mm x 10mm. There is also a crystal of muscovite mica (6mm) on the right-hand side. The smoky quartz is transparent. This specimen and the next one came from a thin pegmatite vein cavity in a granite boulder. Collected 1994. (Author: Mike Wood)

Smoky Quartz + Microcline
Ben a’ Bhuird, Cairngorm Mountains, Grampian Region, Scotland.
85mm x 53mm x 30mm
Specimen of small smoky quartz crystals on microcline. The larger microcline crystal in the centre is 14mm x 10mm. There is also a crystal of muscovite mica (6mm) on the right-hand side.
The smoky quartz is transparent. This specimen and the next one came from a thin pegmatite vein cavity in a granite boulder. Collected 1994. (Author: Mike Wood)

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