Minerals from the Miarolitic Pegmatites in the Stove Mountain Area

The Miarolitic pegmatites in the Stove Mountain area of Colorado have provided numerous attractive specimens of quartz, microcline, albite, and fluorite, as well as rarer accessory minerals. Opaque brown zircons with curved faces, elongated black riebeckite crystals, and bronze-colored astrophyllite...

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Published in:Rocks & minerals 2014-05, Vol.89, p.225
Main Authors: Zito, Gary, Hanson, Sarah L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemistry
Crystals
Minerals
Morphology
Quartz
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Summary:The Miarolitic pegmatites in the Stove Mountain area of Colorado have provided numerous attractive specimens of quartz, microcline, albite, and fluorite, as well as rarer accessory minerals. Opaque brown zircons with curved faces, elongated black riebeckite crystals, and bronze-colored astrophyllite blades are some of the other minerals from this area. This article documents the occurrence, morphology, and chemistry of the accessory minerals found by the first author during the past thirty years.
ISSN:0035-7529
1940-1191