Adularia on Quartz (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)

Item Description

Alpine localities are well known for producing superb Adularia specimens, but there are a few "Alpine-type" localities in the Himalayas of Pakistan that produce some great specimens in their own right. Adularia is actually a variety of Orthoclase (typically), and is most commonly associated with metamorphic deposits such as those in the Alps. This specimen hosts several, white, blocky, rather lustrous crystals of Adularia up to 3.1 cm which are beautifully perched atop a single, lustrous, smoky color Quartz crystal and looks amazingly like a flower on a stem! A very showy and three-dimensional Adularia compared to so many that are relatively "flat" and boring. A great specimen of this contemporary classic metamorphic material.