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Amethyst

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Amethyst crystal group, 11 cm, from the Goboboseb Mountains, about 35 miles west of the town of Brandberg, Daures Constituency, Erongo Region, Namibia. The occurrence was discovered in the early 1950s by Gawie Cloete, an assistant government livestock inspector. He returned to the area 30 years later, found a crystal-bearing horizon in the hard basalt, and filed a claim. Forever Collection; Tom Spann photo. Reference: Bezing et al. (2014).

Product details

SpeciesAmethyst
SizeCabinet
Dimensions11.0 cm
Added on02/13/2026
LocalityNamibia, Erongo Region, Goboboseb Mountains
Publications
  • Mineralogical Record Flawless Beauty page 8

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
—Will JohnsonNot disclosed
—Gawie CloeteNot disclosed

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Amethyst
Mineral guide
Learn about Amethyst
violet quartz prized for vivid color and crystal forms; affordable Brazilian geodes and razor-sharp Georgia crystals, with collecting localities.
Amethyst
Regional guide
Amethyst from Goboboseb Mountains, Namibia
Goboboseb amethyst is the collector’s “Brandberg” amethyst in its most important market sense: glassy quartz from the basalt country west of the Brandberg massif, showing purple amethyst, smoky quartz, rock crystal, phantoms, hematite veils, and mobile fluid inclusions in combinations that are unusually expressive for quartz. The best crystals are not merely purple; they look internally built, with smoky stems, violet caps, ghost-crystal outlines, clay or hematite veils, and trapped liquid-vapor bubbles that animate the specimen when it is turned in the hand.