A single amethyst crystal mounted upright on a black metal stand, purple through the upper section over a pale, rough lower shaft, with natural fractures running through it.
Those fractures look the way they do because of how quartz breaks. Quartz has no cleavage, meaning no internal plane it prefers to part along, so it never splits into flat sheets the way calcite or mica do. It fractures on curved surfaces instead, which is why these run through the body as irregular planes rather than clean lines. They are common in amethyst crystals of this size and they formed long before the piece was ever handled.
Mineral: Amethyst (quartz, SiO₂)
Crystal system: Trigonal
Origin: Brazil
Hardness: 7 on the Mohs scale; hard, though the tip will chip if knocked
Treatment: None
Dimensions: 8.26 x 7.95 x 31 cm
Weight: 1.065 kg
Note: Keep it out of direct sunlight. Sustained UV breaks down the iron centres that produce the purple, and amethyst that fades does not come back
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