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Microcline Value, Price, and Jewelry Information

Microcline is a variety of feldspar. The only microcline you are likely to encounter is amazonite.

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Microcline is a variety of feldspar. The only microcline you are likely to encounter is amazonite.

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Microcline Value

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Microcline crystals, associated with smoky quartz, are popular mineral specimens from the Pike's Peak area of Colorado. The color of amazonite ranges from pale green to dark green and blue-green. Pinkish orthoclase is also often present as an intergrowth.

Name

Microcline is from Greek words meaning small and inclined because the cleavage is close to but not quite 90°.

Occurrence

Microcline occurs in acidic alkali-rich plutonic rocks; also in rocks such as pegmatites, granites, syenites, and schists.

Pala, California; Maine: New York: North Carolina.
USSR; Norway; Sweden: Germany; Italy; Japan: South Africa.
Colorado (Pikes Peak area): amazonite.
Amelia Courthouse. Virginia: finest amazonite in the United States.
South Dakota: perthite.
Canada: perthite, especially Ontario and Quebec.
Brazil: fine amazonite.
India (Kashmir District): amazonite.
Australia (Harts Range).

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