Amethyst Cave Geode

This is a really great purple Amethyst Cave or geode – with lovely clarity in the medium to large sized points with clear colour at the base moving gently into a good purple at the top. After inquiries, we seem to be one of the only Australia companies buying very good quality in 2018.

And it will be free shipped with Pack N Send boxing it and couriering within Australia unless you live in a remote place where shipping costs are prohibitive. We will discuss with this you in the rare event this occurs.

Here is how is are the geodes are graded into one of 16 classifications:

• Colour of the purple points – grey colour, up to a good strong purple
• Clarity of points – clear, down to foggy even opaque
• Depth of colour – purple is only on the top or the point, up to colour is all the way to the root.
• Inclusions – are the inclusions “zero, to inclusions but are interesting, down to inclusions make the cave unappealing.
• Cave face – cave has an open mouth, down to mouth is non existent
• Cave shape – this doesn’t seem to affect price as every shape appeals to any one.

For this amethyst cave there is a sprinkling of black carbon on some points. And unusually there is little agate surround to be seen. Here is a video taken in the strong Aussie sun and a video taken inside the old shop. There is also a YouTube video where I am demonstrating cleaning it.

We of course do sell this size to families who want something extra special to celebrate a major life event or to a corporate board room. Let the cave cleanse you and your space releasing anxiety and stress, creating an organised mind for you. And then opening your connection to Spirit and to abundance.

Like most of our caves it is even all over – in shape, thickness of crust and in colour. Team an amethyst cave with other crystals like selenite tower, rose quartz rough and other crystals as an altar for the home or business to really get the energy bursting through your place.. It has a few mini clusters of a calcite adding its cleansing and expanding energies to the mix. And very cute, giving this cave its unique look.

One of the difficulties with amethyst is that it has so many grades (all with misnomers) and so price comparison without visual inspection is difficult. Many of the “cheap” are two or more grades below this.

Recent efforts (Dec 2022) to buy new caves have shown the quality is terrible and the prices have shot up. We are not replacing amethyst caves unless we can find reasonable quality – it took visits to 4 suppliers before I found even one of OK quality to buy.

Weight	24880 g
Dimensions	250 × 200 × 495 mm
Colour	Purple / Violet
Country Crystal Grew	Brazil
Size	Large

Healing Properties

Benefits of Amethyst

Protection, Purification, Spiritual/Divine Connection

• Stone of calmness, tranquillity and connection to our guides.
• Known as the Violet Flame crystal.
• Clears all levels of our energy body
• Best known for calming the mind and dissolving anxiety so excellent for meditation and healing.
• Strengthens intellect and intuition to bring clarity and reach higher realms of thought so associated with increased wisdom, nobility and spiritual awareness.
• Helps dispense migraines and insomnia.

Spirit Quartz, Green Amethyst (Prasolite) and Chevron Amethyst have their own description. Ametrine (amethyst-citrine) is under Citrine.

Additional Properties of Variations

Dark purple colour

• Aids willpower and helps ward off external influences.
• Brings uprightness and impartiality to situations.
• Helps overcome pain, grief and losses.
• Improves concentration.
• May help alleviate bruising, pain and swelling - and diarrhoea.

Lavender Amethyst (Light Purple Amethyst)

• Improves intuition, good dreams and fitful sleep.
• Enhances conscious perception and understanding experiences.
• Some forms have a very high vibration taking you into beta waves.
• Stimulates and then calms the throat and heat chakras.
• May assist headaches, lungs, skin and nerves.

Amethyst Violet Flowers (Amethyst Flower, Angel Wing Amethyst)

• Amethyst points lie flat against each other. Colour may be whitish to purple and often have green chlorite mixed in.
• Bring light and love into the environment.

Geological Information

Geological Information for Amethyst

A member of the quartz family with iron in its crystal lattice being naturally irradiated to FE4+ creating purple colour, hence why the colour is uneven.

• As the colour of amethyst is caused by iron-based colour centres, iron minerals are often companions of amethyst. Of those three, goethite, lepidocrocite, and hematite frequently occur as inclusions. If large amounts of FE3+ and FE4+ both exist in a piece you have citrine + amethyst which is called Ametrine.
• Amethyst comes in some wonderful structures:
  • points and double terminators;
  • caves (and broken in to clusters)
    • Amethyst is grows with a matrix of agate or basalt.
  • clusters like clear quartz,
  • elestials;
  • fairy amethyst (very small druzy crystals emerging from the side of the main point);
  • spirit amethyst (side points are more visible to the naked eye);
  • cactus or pineapple amethyst (like spirit amethyst but the side points are quite large e.g.5-20% of the size of the main termination);
  • flowers and angel wings,
  • rosettes
  • layered with chevron patterning.
• More information at geological information on Wikipedia and this German website: here.

General Identification

• Type: Mineral
• Category: oxide
• Formula: Silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2)
• Crystal system: Trigonal
• Crystal class: Trapezohedral (32)
• Colour: pale to dark purple, violet, lavender, indigo, + citrine (ametrine), + smoky quartz (smoky amethyst), + clear quartz, + green quartz (amegreen)
• Crystal habit: 6-sided prism ending in 6-sided pyramid (typical)
• Mohs hardness: 7–lower if impure varieties
• Lustre / Diaphaneity: Transparent to translucent, Vitreous/glassy

Special Notes

• Points and small clusters are good for individual healing.
• Caves and clusters are good for a clear and expanding the energies of a space.
• TAKE CARE - amethyst fades in the sun
• Found as caves which then get broken up into clusters and points.
  • Specialised shapes: amethyst shapes include Amethyst Rosette / Amethyst Hedgehog Uncommon
•  Very unusual shapes not related to amethyst caves:
  • Spirit Quartz
  • Amethyst elestial (specialised variety - Amethyst Flower)
  • Points and clusters that grow like clear quartz as in Brandberg, Vera Cruz, etc.

Specialised Varieties

Auralite-23

• Not to be confused with geological mineral Auralite which has little information about it either. Auralite-23 is a trademark of Robert Simmons and geologists refute all the information being given in this section by the "channelling" of Robert. They believe it to just be an amethyst variation.
• "Scientifically proven as the world's oldest crystal - developed more than 1.5 billion years ago." Note: I personally disagree with this assertion also.
• "Made up of at least 17 of the following 23 healing stones: Titanite, Cacoxenite, Lepidocrosite, Ajoite, Hematite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Goethite, Pyrolusite, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Nickel, Copper, Iron, Rutile, Limonite, Sphalerite, Covellite, Chalcopyrite, Gialite, Epidote, Bornite"

Brandberg Amethyst (also Brandberg Clear Quartz and Smoky Quartz)

• From Namibia's highest mountain, Brandberg Mountain.
• Grow like clear quartz clusters.
• The Brandberg is a spiritual site of great significance to the San (Bushman) tribes - more about the location.
• The crystals are collected by locals rather than formal mining techniques as in Brazil.

Veracruz Amethyst

• From Veracruz, Mexico.
• Grow like clear quartz clusters.
• The crystals are collected by locals rather than formal mining.