Amethyst

  

Origin: Piedras Parado, Profesor Rafael Ramirez (Las Vigas), Veracruz, Mexico

Ex Tom Dwyer Collection

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 4.5 cm matrix

 

  

 

  

Quartz with apophyllite and calcite

  

Purple translucent to transparent amethyst Japan law twin crystal grouping measuring 8 cm across

Origin: Daye, Hubei Province, China

Sample size: 10 x 5 x 3 cm (top), 8.5 x 5 x 4.5 cm (2nd row), 8 x 3.5 x 5 cm (bottom)

 

  

doubly terminated very pale purple amethyst quartz crystal, with interesting and neat secondary growths of colourless glassy quartz

Origin: Daye, Hubei Province, China

Sample size: 3 x 2 x 9.5 cm

 

 

  

  

Origin: Piedras Parado, Profesor Rafael Ramirez (Las Vigas), Veracruz, Mexico

Sample size: 12.5 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm

 

  

Quartz matrix, the top covered by slender pale amethystine transparent to translucent quartz crystals to 5.5 cm in length. There is a druse of sparkling micro colourless apophyllite crystals scattered richly about the quartz crystals.

Origin: Daye, Hubei Province, China

Sample size: 11 x 10 x 10 cm

 

  

Scepter amethyst

Origin: Tate Blvd Industrial Park, Hickory, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.8 x 2.8 x 6.7 cm

 

  

Origin: La Sirena mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

Sample size: 7 x 8.5 x 2 cm

 

 

  

Amethyst with fluorite

Origin: Nancy Hanks mine, Unaweep Canyon, Mesa County, Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 16 x 10 x 4.5 cm

 

  

Amethyst phantom

Origin: Amatitlan, Mun. de Zumpango del Rio, Guerrero, Mexico

Sample size: 3 x 1.5 x 8 cm

 

  

Origin: Royal Castle Claim, Mule Creek, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Sample size:  3.3 x 1.7 x 3.5 cm

 

  

Origin: Mex-Tex Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.3 x 2.9 x 4.6 cm

 

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