Amethyst Cluster Upright
$30.00 – $68.00
Amethyst clusters appeal to everyone! This size is often bought as birthday and Christmas gifts. They are naturally rough around the edges and cut and polished on the base.
Read more and select from video on tabs.
Beautiful Uruguayan A grade crystals that I shaped into Amethyst Cluster Upright. Some are on a basalt matrix and others on an agate matrix. The smaller crystal points sparkle delightfully and are a good quality purple with great clarity. Some have not dust but tiny druzy crystals of calcite etc.
I turned normal clusters into these nicer uprights that sell really well as gifts. To help you pick I have created a video here.
This is the size most kids and people like. This shape is most popular for birthdays! We buy Uruguayan very good grade which makes them more expensive but the colour and clarity is much better than most sold. The uprights were massively popular at the shop so here I have created some smaller ones to help the budget.
I stress the base of agate as we were told that this has become hard to get and in fact much of our recent purchases had a lot of basalt/clay rather than agate which is structurally stronger. And basalt if left in water, dissolves. Read more about the shape.
Being the stone of Peace and the Violet Flame it is probably the best known crystal. It has outstanding healing and cleansing powers. And it is well regarded for opening intuition and enhancing psychic abilities of a person. More details are on the Healing tab.
Dimensions are for E.
May you or the one you buy for enjoy the amethyst cluster upright bring much joy and healing help.
| Weight | 115 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 47 × 25 × 63 mm |
| Colour | Purple / Violet |
| Country Crystal Grew | Uruguay |
| Country of Shaping | |
| Size | Small, Small-Medium |
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.
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.
