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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: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 3.9 × 2.8 cm
Description

Lustrous amethyst quartz from the Brynsåsen Quarry (Norway) with nice purple colour. It is a sharp doubly-ended piece, with the purple colour specially located under the with bright rhombohedral faces. Prism faces are also recrystallized at the rear and partially covered by tiny quartz crystals and grey rests of the matrix.

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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