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Llano TX: Llanite roadcut, Highway 16

ROCKHOUNDING GRAY AREA DOCUMENTED

Where: Texas · North America · approx. 30.88, -98.65 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: the world's only llanite dike, brown rhyolite studded with opalescent blue quartz, cut by the highway north of Llano

What turns up: llanite with blue quartz phenocrysts, rhyolite

Access: Gray area.

Roadcut on the TX 16 right of way: loose hand samples are commonly taken but the ROW is state controlled and parking is tight; treat it as look-mostly and take only loose spalls

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