"The Mystery of Lyle and Louise"

Dense and massive.

Hematite-cemented quartz; orthoquartzite.

Pure, large, transparent-to-translucent cleavages, Mohs’ hardness of 4.

Chlorite-bearing.

Pale pink felsite, with small sanidine phenocrysts.

Chlorite-mica with perfect slaty cleavage.

Brownish gray, translucent.

Typical green-gray, fissile, clay-rich.

White, very dark green, and very dark red to light red granoblastic intergrowth of wollastonite, diopside, and andradite.

Himalayan mineral great for teaching and display.