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Amethyst

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Description
Locality: 
Nyíri, Zemplén Mountains, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.5 × 8.9 × 4.7 cm
Description

This kind of amethyste is unique for this one locality. Unfortunetaly the locality is closed, the mayor of the village prohibited field collecting there and so no new material can be expected. The specimen is from the last official field collecting at the area. It consists - typically - of spheres of tiny crystals. These micro crystals are all sharp and lustrous. The specimen shows a very good color for the locality and the dimension is remarkable. When collectors extract specimen from the rock, they most times broke into smaller pieces and so a specimen in this size is already exceptional. In excellent condition damage-wise, backside was extracted from the rock.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Amethyst

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Purple