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Amethyst

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Amethyst

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Description
Locality: 
Brynsåsen Quarry, Stange, Innlandet, Norway
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm
Description

A fine crystal of amethyst quartz from the Brynsåsen with the best purple color of those similar specimens that we propose today. The point is sharp with bright rhombohedral faces and tiny erosions. The prim faces are also recrystallized and partially covered by tiny quartz and sulphides crystals. Furthermore it is a doubly-ended and an incipient sceptre crystal with the base detached off the matrix. Nice!.

According to Einar Teppen, the Norwegian collector who found the specimen in 2008, these were recovered mostly as loose crystals in a narrow fault zone that cut the granite rock. I would not say that these crystals are rare but are hard to find, and have never been abundant in the market.

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

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