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Amethyst

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Amethyst

Ex coll. Burger (CH)

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Description
Locality: 
Eggenburg, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.1 × 4.7 × 4.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.40cm
Weight: 
201.00gr
Description

Rare drusy of idiomorph amethyst crystals with glasuhr structure on top of a thin agate/chalcedony layer. Included, some dark needles, reported as rutile (but could be some Fe oxides). 

Definitely an oldtimer specimen from an Austrian locale. 
Former Burger collection (CH), collected in pre-1950s, relabelled in modern times.

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

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