Fascinating Facets & The Crystal Caves -pictures and sale of amethyst
stalactite slices
Collectors amethyst stalactite slices
all from one piece
Very rare and only from Uruguay..polished
on both sides.
The slices are cut and polished from columns of amethyst
developed millions of years inside amethyst geodes. Amethyst
geodes,once gas pockets in hot boiling lava, were fluid
silica founds it way inside , together with iron particles
to give the purple colour,
When everything cooled off ,atoms and molecules, together
with the available silica were trapped and formed the
quartz crystals inside .
Now today and 50 million years or so ago amethyst geodes
are mined from the very hard lava basalt, once boiling
lava.
Larger slices as collectors items and let your goldsmith
create a piece of exclusive jewellery from the smaller
pieces.
large slices at 6 cm in diameter
Collectors
amethyst stalactite slices set
all from one piece for AUD$ 975.00