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Amethyst

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Chummibort, Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2 × 1.4 cm
Description

Alpine amethyste is generally a great rarity and material from this rare locality is very hard to obtain. The base is a colorless rock crystal - on it you can see a sharp terminated, light violet amethyste zepter. Very showy in various positions, no significant damages to report.

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