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Amethyst from
Corstorphine Hill, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Corstorphine Hill, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:502
Long-form Identifier:1:3:502:3
GUID (UUID V4):0d73e6c9-20e3-49e1-b55b-369319ec1173
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
4.4km (2.7 miles) Craiglockhart, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
6.7km (4.2 miles) Blackford Hill Quarry, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
8.6km (5.4 miles) South Queensferry, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
12.0km (7.5 miles) Burnt-Island, Fife, Scotland, UK
13.6km (8.5 miles) Pettycur, Fife, Scotland, UK
36.5km (22.7 miles) North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
38.9km (24.2 miles) Alva Silver Mine, Silver Glen, Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, UK
39.2km (24.4 miles) Binn Hill, Glenfarg, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
44.2km (27.5 miles) Newburgh, Fife, Scotland, UK
46.4km (28.8 miles) Wilkiehaugh, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
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