Orthoclase

Adularia included with chlorite

Origin: Fellital, Switzerland

Sample size: 5.8 x 3.5 x 3 cm

Baveno twin with chlorite

Origin: Montecatini Quarry, Baveno, Piedmont, Italy

Sample size: 9.3 x 2.5 x 1.7 cm

Origin: Aletschgletscher, Hoele Bettmerhorn, Wallis Switzerland

Sample size: 7.8 x 7.3 x 6.5 cm

Origin: Fieschertal, Valais, Switzerland

Sample size: 13.4 x 10.3 x 4.2 cm

"Faden" adularia

Origin: Hashupa, Shigar Valley, north of Skardu, Baltistan, Pakistan

Sample size: 5.6 x 2.3 x 1.1 cm (left), 3.5 x 1.9 x 0.8 cm (right)

Transparent, colourless quartz needles and translucent, frosted purple fluorite cubes preferentially and beautifully grow from the sides of the lustrous, snow-white valencianite blades. Valencianite is a low-temperature variety of adularia, which is a variety of orthoclase and is unique to the Valenciana Mine.

Origin: Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

Ex Marty Lewadny Collection

Sample size: 11.0 x 8.5 x 3.8 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone