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Amethyst

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Description
Locality: 
Mamuju Area, West Sulawesi, Indonesia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 3.1 × 2.2 cm
Description

A beautiful, sculpural cluster, consisiting of speroidal crystallized aggregates of Amethyst.   Here you see sparkly, translucent violet Amethyst botryoids from the recent find in Indonesia. Botryoidal Amethyst is quite rare worldwide. This stuff was previously described as  Agate or Chalcedony but analysis by Dr. George Rossman at Caltech concluded these should be labeled as Amethyst. A fine and aesthetic mini.

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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