DCHP-3

Labrador feldspar

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a feldspar shot with blue, green, and other colors.

Quotations

1824
Mr. Smillie, Lapidary, of Quebec, brought up some beautiful specimens of a sky-blue variety of the Labradore feldspar, a mineral first, and as yet almost exclusively found on that coast.
1829
Of the productions of the Kiglapyed we have no account, but to the south of this chain the district commences, where the Labrador feldspar is found.