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The town’s pegmatites are composed of about 65 percent feldspar, 25 percent quartz, 8 percent mica and trace amounts of other minerals.
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Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
This magma then pushed through the cracks in the rocks around it, cooling and crystallizing over millions of years to form Spruce Pine’s bounty of pegmatites—igneous rock that’s chock-full of quartz crystals.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
The two main companies at the Spruce Pine pegmatite complex—roughly 40 kilometers long by 16 kilometers wide, according to a 1962 survey—are Quartz Corp and Unimim, a subsidiary of the global industrial minerals company SCR-Sibelco, based in Belgium.
—Tommy Greene, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2024
Though the Iapetus Ocean died, due to a process called subduction in which dense, oceanic crust sinks back into the earth’s mantle, some pieces of pegmatite were thrust up and preserved for study for experts and amateurs alike.
—Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2024
The hinges and folds of these rocks were — pun intended — rock-solid, but the nearby pegmatite crumbled in our hands with little effort.
—Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2024
Lithium is extracted from spodumene found in the granite rock called pegmatite.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024
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Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
This magma then pushed through the cracks in the rocks around it, cooling and crystallizing over millions of years to form Spruce Pine’s bounty of pegmatites—igneous rock that’s chock-full of quartz crystals.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
The two main companies at the Spruce Pine pegmatite complex—roughly 40 kilometers long by 16 kilometers wide, according to a 1962 survey—are Quartz Corp and Unimim, a subsidiary of the global industrial minerals company SCR-Sibelco, based in Belgium.
—Tommy Greene, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2024
Though the Iapetus Ocean died, due to a process called subduction in which dense, oceanic crust sinks back into the earth’s mantle, some pieces of pegmatite were thrust up and preserved for study for experts and amateurs alike.
—Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2024
The hinges and folds of these rocks were — pun intended — rock-solid, but the nearby pegmatite crumbled in our hands with little effort.
—Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2024
Lithium is extracted from spodumene found in the granite rock called pegmatite.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Pegmatite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pegmatite. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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pegmatite
noun
peg·ma·tite
ˈpeg-mə-ˌtīt 
: a grainy variety of granite that occurs in layers in rock
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