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Amethyst

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Description
Locality: 
Adrar Tirecht Bou Oudi, Tata Province, Souss-Massa Region, Morocco
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 2.9 × 1.9 cm
Description

Single crystal of amethyst of intense purple colour with nice coloured phantoms. It is a doubly-terminated crystal with a flattened rear side, but not broken, with a polycrystalline face rich in tiny crystal faces. It has elongated dark red, curved elongated unknown inclusions, probably of hematite or goethite.

Good representative specimen from Adrar Tirecht Bou Oudi. Found in 2009.

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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