Quartz var. Amethyst

$3,500.00

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Tucson, Arizona, USA

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This beautiful small cabinet specimen of Hematite-included Amethyst Quartz is recorded as from Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada, but it is safe to speculate it is specifically from the Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine. The specimen forms a low domed, hedgehog-like mound of glassy, highly lustrous Quartz crystals of a good deep amethyst purple. The chocolate brown Hematite inclusions have a preferential orientation, mainly individual spots from one direction and as a continuous film on the opposite side of the Quartz crystals. Hence, from one side the specimen is principally purple and from the opposite side, purple tinged milk chocolate ' what a combination! Turn the specimen over and the flat cleaved base is a purer Amethyst purple, unimpaired by Hematite. A superb Amethyst Quartz from Thunder Bay.