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Amethyst

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Amethyst

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Description
Locality: 
Royal Restormel Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 5.5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Weight: 
88.00gr
Description

A quartz and goethite matrix hosts part of a vug lined with lustrous amethyst, the purple of the amethyst is generally deeper towards the crystal terminations of which some are included with tiny golden goethite sprays.

A bright clean and intensely coloured specimen from a rare location for Cornish amethyst.

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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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