Polished Amethyst Cluster

I am having fun at lapidary club taking Amethyst Clusters lacking appeal, and then through shaping and being polished they become beautiful! We nowadays only buy the higher-grade amethyst in clusters as our customers keep loving the quality.

The smaller specimen is a striking mid-purple with small points. And the larger has larger, darker points.

• Dimensions are for the larger. As it has a lot of matrix the price was adjusted.
• Watch the video to see it better (click here).

Customers who have come into the shops can attest how lovely our specimens are and many of the polished pieces from Uruguay went quickly for gifts. I ran out, hence I now do it myself!

Both are lovely quality – colour, clarity and sparkle. The points are small to medium in size. Look closely at the photos because all clusters are broken from a larger piece so there is minor damage on edges.

These are natural specimens but the sides are polished as I felt that both wanted to be one easily held in the hand for meditation or while working.

Benefits of Amethyst Clusters

Let the crystal cleanse you and your space releasing anxiety and stress, creating an organized mind for you. And then opening your connection to Spirit and to abundance. Read more on the Healing tab.

Is one of these beautiful polished amethyst clusters a gift for you or someone you know?

Weight	369 g
Dimensions	110 × 75 × 45 mm
Colour	Purple / Violet
Country Crystal Grew	Brazil
Country of Shaping	Australia
Size	Large, X-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.