Friday Rocks | #6

After the Rose Quartz let me present today the purple colour variety of quartz, Amethyst.

I have one bigger piece with nice crystals, two small pieces and tumbled stone.

I knew that amethyst was used as gemstone. Curious as ever I started reading and I found these interesting facts:

• Ancient Egyptians used it for gems
• Ancient Greeks believed that it could help them when they got drunken against intoxication.
• In the Middle Ages, soldiers wore amethyst for protection in battles.
• Anglican bishops got amethyst rings.
• The deposits of this mineral are big enough to keep the price low so the gems to be affordable.
• it is used for faceted stones, cabochons, beads, tumble stones and other ornamental objects.
• Amethyst is also a name of a colour, thanks to the stone

Fact sources - Wikipedia and Geology.com

Even though Bulgaria is small country, there are deposits of different minerals and amethyst also can be found here. I am afraid I have no idea where exactly my stones come from. This time I lost their traces and I think that the small pieces my son bought from the musuem (Earth and Man National Museum) while the big crystal one I bought from a local shop in my hometown.

The tumbled stone reflects the light on its polished surface and pictures were not good enough, but the crystals are not so bad.

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The crystals at the edges become transparent when I took close-ups. Also the light helps in addition.

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Images taken with Samsung J5.

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