Quartz var: Amethyst (''Cactus'' style crystals)

Item Description

An attractive piece of what is commonly referred to as "Cactus Amethyst" or "Spirit Quartz" from South Africa. These notably distinctive specimens started showing up on the market in the mid 2000s. They really made a splash with collectors, especially Quartz enthusiasts, as the form and overall appearance doesn't quite resemble anything we've seen previously. This showy specimen hosts beautiful, lustrous, drusy, translucent lilac crystals of Amethyst sitting on an earlier generation of prismatic Amethyst to create the unique style. The pointed pyramidal terminations of the original Quartz crystals are isolated, while the body of the crystals have a prickly, "cactus" appearance with an overgrowth of smaller crystals along the prisms. Boekenhoutshoek is the true source for the Amethystine Quartz, erroneously marketed at first as being from the Magaliesberg Range. No major damage that I can find, outside of the base where the piece was removed from the pocket wall