Microcline (var: Amazonite) with Smoky Quartz (RARE locality!) (ex David Burgess Collection)

Item Description

The famous Moat Mountain locality in New Hampshire is well-known for its wonderful Microcline and Quartz combinations. Rarely specimens have been found with a light blue-green color in the Microcline creating specimens that are notably similar to the famous specimens from the Pikes Peak Batholith in Colorado. This specimen features sharp, well-formed, blocky crystals of pale blue-green color Amazonite measuring up to 1.2 cm which are associated with starkly contrasting, richly colored Smoky Quartz prisms measuring up to 1.1 cm on matrix. The center of the piece is in excellent shape, with very little damage, though the periphery is contacted where the piece was removed from the pocket wall. Hard to find on the market, and a must have for any New England collector or pegmatite collector. From the worldwide collection of David Burgess (1951-2016). David was a prolific species collector from Newington, Connecticut, and the namesake for the extremely rare cobalt arsenate species Burgessite, which he discovered.