Elvan, or ELVANITE, is the miner's name in the south-west of England for a granular crystalline rock, composed of quartz and orthoclase, which forms veins associated with granite. It occurs as veins not only proceeding from the granite and traversing other rocks, but in the body of the granite itself. It is included by geologists under Quartz-felsite.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 310
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