Adularia, Quartz, Actinolite (Var: Byssolite)

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A fine cabinet combination specimen of large, sharp orthoclase (variety adularia) crystals set on a glassy quartz crystal shard from recent finds in the Tormiq Valley of Pakistan. The translucent and lustrous crystals are included-with and preferentially coated with green chlorite. The smaller, right-hand crystal has an interesting small tuft of soft, hair-like byssolite fibers on the termination. Byssolite is a variety of actinolite.