Description
Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz. Quartz is a very common mineral and is easily recognized beacause it is so frequently found as transparent.
It comes in a number of colored varieties – amethyst, citrine, rose quartz, smokey quartz. Quartz crystals are among the earliest talismans.
The color spurce of amethyst comes from purple – iron + aluminium + irradiation.
An Amethyst was the ninth stone in the breastplate of the high priest of Israel and one of the ten stones on which the names of the tribes of Israel were engraved.
Hardness: 7
Formula: SiO2
Amethyst is February’s birthstone.
