Description: Beryl + Feldspar (rock) Ben a' Bhuird, Cairngorm Mountains, Grampian Region, Scotland, UK 8cm x 6cm x 4cm I found a few lumps of this unusual rock in one place, just lying on the ground. It looks like granite but there is almost no quartz in it - comprising an equigranular mass of greenish beryl and pink feldspar (don't know if the feldspar is microcline or orthoclase). Beryl crystals were found in the vicinity, from thin pegmatite veins.

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