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Amethyst

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Shining with a glassy, smooth exterior and illustrated with extremely well-defined skeletal features, this is an exceptional, doubly-terminated Amethyst crystal from the Goboboseb Mountains, a mountain range famous for producing some of the most colorful and rich Amethyst crystals in the world. The crystal is primarily filled with colorless and light rusty orange layers with accenting wisps of deep purple throughout the terminations; the bottom of the specimen, however, is near-completely filled with the dark grey color of Smoky Quartz. Underneath the Amethyst is a small amount of host rock, which is connected to the main crystal by a thin siliceous layer. This piece comes with a custom acrylic base.

Product details

SizeCabinet
Dimensions10.0 x 14.0 x 9.0 cm
Added on06/14/2025

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
03/2025Unknown Owner$5,500.00
purchased from Heritage Auctions (Dan Kennedy's collection)
Dan KennedNot 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.