Amethyst from Namibia, Erongo Region, Dâures Constituency, Brandberg Area, Goboboseb Mountains

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Product details

SpeciesAmethyst
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions5.1 x 6.7 x 4.8 cm
Added on10/03/2025
Current owner
Synapse Collection
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Acquired
Feb 2019
12 for sale·6 sold

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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.
Locality guide
Goboboseb Mountains
Goboboseb Mountains, Namibia — premier quartz locality famed for phantom-growth and color-rich crystals, with rare basalt-pocket specimens prized by collectors.