Origin: Ayoreita Mine, Rincon del Tigre, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Sample size: 8.7 x 6.5 x 5 cm
This is a quartz crystal with an amethyst scepter overgrowth on it. One of the
pyramid faces of the amethyst appears to have grown against some other mineral
as there are some unrecognizable crystals faces in the indentation.
Origin: Tugaung Naingdaing, Burma
Sample size: 7 x 3 x 2.2 cm
This specimen consists of a druse of amethyst crystals partially frosted on
one side with small golden
siderite
crystals. Two of the amethyst crystals are capped with small
calcite
crystals which can be seen near the top of the specimen.
Origin: La Sirena Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico
Sample size: 8.6 x 4.1 x 3.5 cm
This specimen consists of large amethyst crystals with distinct caps and
smaller drusy amethyst covering the prism faces.
Origin: Magaliesberg, Transvaal, South Africa
Sample size: 11.2 x 6.5 x 5.5 cm
This specimen consists of a frosted colourless crystal of quartz draped in a
second generation of amethyst crystals
Origin: Ouro Fino Mine, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerias, Brazil
Sample size: 3.9 x 2.7 x 1.9 cm
Scepter amethyst
Origin: 5.5 x 3.4 cm
Sample size: 4 x 1.2 cm
Amethyst on
pyrite
Origin: Turt, Oas, Satu Mare, Romania
Sample size: 4.7 x 3 cm
Amethyst
Origin: Chundu, Kazangarare, Zimbabwe
Sample size: 20 x 21 x 23 mm
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