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Amethyst (Cactus Quartz)
- Boekenhoutshoek area (Boekenhouthoek), Mkobola district, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
- Cabinet, 10.6 x 10.4 x 6.3 cm
- Start Time: 01/02/2014 6:45:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 01/09/2014 6:45:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
A great representative specimen of so-called "Cactus Quartz" or "Spirit Quartz" from South Africa. These pieces really made a splash on the market about 10 years ago. This piece features beautiful, lustrous, translucent to transparent, lilac crystals of Amethyst sitting on an earlier generation of Quartz. The terminations are isolated, while the body of the crystals have a prickly, "cactus" appearance with an overgrowth of smaller crystals. The iron oxide inclusions are a nice accent. Boekenhoutshoek is the true source for the Amethystine Quartz, erroneously marketed at first as being from the Magaliesberg Range.