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Bancroft - Yates Mine amazonite, Ontario

Crystal locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: Amazonite (blue-green microcline), magnetite, biotite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Grenville pegmatite

Source of Bancroft-area amazonite feldspar.

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