Feldspar                    Mineral Group: SILICATES

Feldspar is a very common mineral found in the Earth's crust, making up about 60%
  • It is often seen in road cuts along Ontario highways up North
  • Feldspar tends to be pink.
  • When feldspar is green-blue, it is called amazonite.
  • Labradorite is a well known semi-precious variety that shows dramatic blue and green schiller.
  • Feldspar is a common mineral in many rocks
  • Feldspar is commonly found in granite.
  • Feldspar is the mineral that looks like a flower in Daisy Stone and Chinese Writing Stone
  • Feldspar has perfect cleavage. It will easily break into "rhombs".

 


Bancroft, Ontario, CANADA


Feldspar rhomb
Huntsville, Ontario   CANADA
Feldspar Seams in Road cuts
  • When you drive along the roads in Muskoka, Ontario where the hills have been blasted to let the road travel straight through, you will often see seams of pink feldspar in the face of the rock.

Feldspar is often found with quartz and mica - the building blocks of Ontario granite.
If you look closely at the pink seam, you will see that the feldspar is breaking off in flat sections
 


Feldspar in Granite ~  Huntsville, Ontario, CANADA

 

 

Granite .

  • granite is one of the most commonly found rocks that contains feldspar
  • is mainly composed of feldspar, quartz and mica
  • feldspar is often salmon, pinkish in colour


 


Feldspar & Quartz ~ Huntsville, Ontario, CANADA

Feldspar in Quartz ~  Huntsville, Ontario, CANADA
Feldspar Crystals from Bancroft, Ontario CANADA
 

 

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