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Feldspar
Chemical Composition A family of complex aluminosilicates
Colour A wide range of colours.
Refractive Index R.I. 1.52-1.54.
Durability Hardness 6-6.5.
Crystal Structure Monoclinic or triclinic
Specific Gravity 2.54-2.63.
Sources / Occurrence Many widely scattered locales, depending on composition.
Varieties Crystalline Quartz—Amethyst, Citrine, Ametrine, Vermarine/Prasiolite, Rock Crystal, Smoky Quartz, Rose Quartz
Crypto crystalline Quartz—Agate, Aventurine, Bloodstone, Cornelian, Calchedony, Chrysocolla Quartz, Chryoprase, Fire Agate, Jasper, Pertrified Dinosaur Bone, Petrified wood, Prase, Sard, Sardonyx, Tiger’s eye and Turritella.

Moonstone- colourless to yellowish gray, highly translucent to semitransparent variety

Amazonite- opaque light green to blue-green feldspar with a distinctive mottled or striated appearance.

Labradorite- gray or colourless to yellow feldspar containing inclusions of other materials that produce a variety of visual effects. Oregon produces semitransparent to transparent red to green (or bicoloured) material (sunstone , heliolite, or plushstone).

Brilliantly iridescent blue/purple/yellow/green material from Finland is known as spectrolite.

Orthoclase- transparent yellow feldspar resembling  citrine quartz or yellow beryl.