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Amethyst

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Amethyst

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Kato Nevrokopi Basin, Drama, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 5.3 × 2.3 cm
Description

Amethyste from Greece is generally very rare - Kato Nevrokopi is the best locality in Greece and also among the most relevant Amethyste localities in Europe (see Amethyste special edition of Lithgraphy - I was one of the authors). Kato Nevrokopi has alpine-type clefts, so quantity is always very low and material is rare and hard to obtain. During the last few years local field-collectors discovered new material - this discovery was published in Lapis Magazine, the particular specimen was also part of this article. It is developed as floater; the first generation was a tabular smoky quartz (you can see it in the center), in a second part of genesis the specimen developed sharp, highly lustrous and very intense colored Amethyste zepters at the top and also at the bottom. So this is a very unusual specimen with - for Kato Nevrokopi - a very uncommon intense color. You already own some pieces from Greece - so this might fit in your collection. Next to Lapis Magazine the specimen is also published in the book about minerals from Greece by Berthold Ottens.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Amethyst

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Purple