Quartz var. Amethyst with Prehnite - image 1
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Quartz var. Amethyst with Prehnite

$1,250.00

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Very unusual Amethyst piece from Brandberg featuring doubly terminated crystals that are both sceptered and with phantoms, and the character of the piece is quite different from back to front! One side highlights the sharp crystal faces and terminations of two distinct orientations of the Amethyst crystals and their sceptered nature. All of the crystals have a marked, elongate, dark purple phantom core extending through the length of each crystal with the robust, vertical scepter having an Amethyst spire extending through the center of it! The horizontal crystal is a doubly terminated scepter with one end having a robust component similar to the vertical one, whereas the other end consists of a thinner component that has a companion Amethyst growing in tandem with it! On the opposite side of the piece, eight orbs of light yellow-green, 0.5 to 0.7mm Prehnite decorate the Amethyst crystals with most of them congregated at their intersection. There is also a sparkling, drusy patch of Prehnite on a few of the terminal faces on this side that extends down onto one of the prism faces. Although thousands of these have been mined, this one stands out among a crowd.

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SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions8.0 x 6.0 x 2.3 cm
Listed on10/23/2024
SKUSM20-293

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Amethyst
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violet quartz prized for vivid color and crystal forms; affordable Brazilian geodes and razor-sharp Georgia crystals, with collecting localities.
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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.