Quartz (Var: Amethyst)

This specimen was collected in 1986.

It shows a 1.5 mm amethyst, perched on and surrounded by matte, beige dogtooth calcite crystals.

At right, in the back, and out of focus, the typical orange-colored matrix of dolomite crystals . The black material at the tip of the calcite xl at right is tarnished pyrite.

The millimetric-sized quartz crystals from this locality range in color from partly smokey, to slightly amethystine, to deep purple.

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Photo added: 11th Feb 2012