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Amethyst

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Description
Locality: 
Silverton, Animas, San Juan County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.3 × 3 × 3.5 cm
Description

This crystal is for the collector of Colorado minerals or oddities. The termination is really several small terminations. Part of the crystal is "alligator skin" as evidenced by the first picture. The back of the crystal is mostly covered with matrix. I have just a few pieces from this locality and I've never seen any other mineral specimens from Hurricane Peak. These were collected at high elevations and have some slight chipping as a result of the freeze/thaw cycle there.

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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