Amethyst

AmethystOne of the most widely recognized and unmistakable minerals, Amethyst has been sought after since ancient times as a gemstone and decorative object. Amethyst is a form of Quartz which gets its beautiful purple tint from the substitution of silicone for iron due to irradiation. It is found in a wide range of shades from deep purple to pale violet and even pink, with color intensity usually deepest at the termination or tip of each crystal.

Species - Scyphocrinites elegans

They were recovered from deposits in Morocco and date back to the late Cretaceous Period

Our specimens consist of fine crystals spread across a matrix in shades of both blue and green

many of which feature coatings of fine

roughly 20 million years ago

Measurement is of box

copper has been used by humans as ornamentation

and is one of the more common gems although pieces of exceptional hue and clarity are considered fairly rare and can be extremely valuable

Metacanthian Trilibite from the Mid Devonian Period

Paradoxides sp

This preglabellar ring (head shield) is covered in many sensory pits which may have held hairlike features when the trilobite was alive

where some truly impressive specimens like this very rarely emerge from the mines