Amethyst (Japan-Law Twin) - image 1
Amethyst (Japan-Law Twin) - image 2

Amethyst (Japan-Law Twin)

Unknown Owner
Help improve this recordNo owner is registered for this specimen yet. If it's yours or you know more about it, you can add the owner, provenance, publications and other details.
Sign in to contribute
An EXTREMELY RARE AND FAMOUS SPECIMEN, this is "the Romero Amethyst twin" to many collectors. It is a freak of nature in that, for some reason, amethyst has not been foud in Japan-law twinning as with its smoky and clear cousins. Nobody knows why. Yet, here is a true twin, precisely measured to confirm the relevant angles and prove the fact (often, apparent twins simply are out of plane and not true twins). It is a pristine, floater crystals considered to be perhaps the finest miniature sized quartz specimen from Mexico by many collectors. Romero obtained this piece in the early 1980s and I hear fro mother colelctors that offers were often made to trade it out of him at very high prices, but were always politely turned down.This specimen from the Dr Miguel Romero collection was on loan exhibition to the University of Arizona Museum for over a decade, until my purchase of this collection in 2008. It was on display in special cases at the museum, and has since been featured in the book "The Miguel Romero Collection of Mexico Minerals" which we sponsored as a special supplement book (published by the Mineralogical Record in December of 2008) .

Product details

SpeciesAmethyst
SizeMiniature
Dimensions4.7 x 3.5 x 1.2 cm
Added on10/23/2024
LocalityMexico, Veracruz
Publications
  • Mineralogical Record Special Issue: Miguel Romero Collection Of Mexican Minerals page 11

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
08/2024Unknown OwnerNot disclosed
—The ArkenstoneNot disclosed

Learn more

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 Veracruz, Mexico
Veracruz amethyst is one of the few amethysts that serious collectors can often recognize at arm’s length. Its appeal is not based on the massive, dark geode architecture of Brazil or Uruguay, nor on the saturated, stout crystal groups of Guerrero. The classic Veracruz look is airy: slender, glassy quartz prisms, lilac to violet, often with the strongest purple gathered in the terminations, rising singly or in bouquets from a gray volcanic matrix dusted with smaller quartz and, in the best combinations, green epidote.