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Amethyst

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Description
Locality: 
Carrières Prigent, Guipavas, Brest, Finistrére, Brittany, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5.7 × 3 cm
Description

A fine and colourful specimen features numerous of medium violet, sharp and well defined crystals of amethyst on typical matrix. The higly lustrous and excellent terminated amethyst gives the specimen a glistening surface. A super specimen with a minimal imperfection not worth to report because nearly invisible.

The Prigent cement quarry near Brest in Brittany produced a couple of years ago, fine specimens of amethyst and smoky quartz as well. Mostly known by the local collectors. And this is one of those specimens.

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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