AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Scotland > Quartz var. Amethyst with Hematite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 61133 |
Mineral: | Quartz var. Amethyst with Hematite |
Locality: | Height's Lodge Pocket, Screel Hill, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland |
Description: | Plate of lustrous transparent purple amethyst quartz crystals to 8 mm over milky quartz that has epimorphic casts after rhombohedral calcite crystals on the bottom. The amethyst crystals have microscopic red-brown hematite crystals on the surfaces. Collected in January 2009 by John Lawson (1942-2024) and Robert Lawson |
Overall Size: | 10x5.5x2 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 8 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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