Amethyst (ex Tom Campbell Collection)

Item Description

Specimens from "Las Vigas" (now more properly Piedra Parada) are among the most sought after and fine quality examples of Amethyst in the world. Here we have a fantastic miniature specimen featuring a textbook, razor sharp, highly lustrous, GEMMY, beautiful purple color (nearly white at the base) hexagonal prism highlighted by several small thin prisms of Quartz with minor Epidote growing at the base. One of the smaller Amethysts on the bottom of the specimen actually shows a scepter habit. The main Amethyst is virtually pristine and looks gorgeous from all sides. The piece is nearly 100% damage free, save the base where it was removed from the pocket wall. Interestingly, I can see a small termination on the lower half of the crystal making this a doubly-terminated specimen as well. From the worldwide collection of Tom Campbell. Tom is a mineralogist and mineral collect who works with us here at The Arkenstone. He has over 35 years of experience in the fields of exploration geology, mining, and applied mineralogy, and has even more years under his belt as a collector! Tom has described many new species over the years, and discovered the rare phosphates Tiptopite, Fransoletite and Pahasapaite. Tom was also a co-author on the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Minerals. You can see a list of Tom's published works here ( https://www.irocks.com/thomas-j-campbell-publications-list ).