Locality type: | Mining District |
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Species: | Albite |
Formula: | Na(AlSi3O8) |
Confirmation |
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Validity: | Believed Valid |
Data |
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Mineral Data: | Click here to view Albite data |
Locality Data: | Click here to view Cuchillo Negro Mining District, Sierra Cuchillo (Cuchillo Negro Mts), Sierra County, New Mexico, USA |
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 233232 |
Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:233232:1 |
GUID (UUID V4): | 339ea99e-b41d-463b-bdd8-b80ef6d3e37b |
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| | Journal (issue) | pocket in 1955 at least 25 others were found as mining progressed. The contents of these, which ranged...October 26, 1972—A bright, clear day. We worked the new pocket very carefully, by hand, and extracted a large...tourmaline and a great deal of granular and crystalline albite, most of it snow white and very pretty. Enlarged...pinacoid termination. We carefully scraped the albite away from the crystal and left it in place temporarily...with very crystalline white albite piles between. Protruding from the albite are tourmaline crystals of |
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