Amethyst Geode Half With Blue Agate - 7.9 x 6.5 inch

Broad blue-grey Banded Agate makes up the visible bulk of this Amethyst Geode Half, its layers sweeping up and over the cavity in a rounded arch. Set deep at the base of that opening is a dark crystal pocket, the Amethyst here reaching a much stronger, almost smoky purple than the pale material common to the format, and reading nearly black where the light does not fall directly on it. The contrast between the cool banded exterior and that dense inner pocket is the piece's defining feature. It stands squarely on a wide flat cut base.

Amethyst is traditionally linked with intuition, spiritual awareness, and calm, and pieces where a deep crystal pocket sits within a larger stone body are often chosen for that sense of something held rather than displayed openly. This one suits a hearth, low plinth, or console where it can be approached and looked into. Traditional practice positions a geode of this scale as the anchor of a room's arrangement, and its weight and footprint mean it is generally set once and left in place.

Key Properties
Primary Focus: Intuition & Spiritual Awareness
Secondary Focus: Calm & Stress Relief
Chakra Association: Third Eye, Crown
Birthstone: February
Zodiac Sign: Pisces, Aquarius
Chinese Zodiac: Rabbit, Goat
Ruling Planet: Jupiter
Elements: Air, Water
Mohs Hardness: 7
Stone Family: Tectosilicate
Material: Natural Amethyst, Banded Agate matrix
Origin: Brazil
Form: Geode / Cluster
Finish: Polished
Approximate Size: 200 mm (7.9 inches) H x 166 mm (6.5 inches) W
Approximate Weight: 2828 g
Listing: Single unit

Geological Information
Amethyst is the purple quartz variety, silicon dioxide at Mohs 7 in the trigonal system, its colour arising from iron impurities together with natural irradiation within the crystal lattice. Higher iron content and greater radiation exposure produce the deeper, smokier purples seen in this piece's crystal pocket, at the opposite end of the range from the pale lilac material more commonly recovered from the same deposits. The surrounding body is Banded Agate, a chalcedony variety of the same family and hardness, formed as silica-rich hydrothermal fluids filled a cavity and deposited in cyclic layers; the blue-grey cast comes from light scattering within the fine silica structure. In a geode the agate lines the void first and the crystal grows inward afterwards, so the proportion of banded shell to crystal pocket is fixed by how much space remained when crystallisation began. This piece is from Brazil, one of the principal sources alongside Uruguay, Zambia, Madagascar, Russia, South Korea, and Canada.

AuturaSol Standard
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Care Note
Amethyst fades with prolonged exposure to direct sunlight. Display the piece away from a sunlit window, and lift it from the base rather than by the crystal points.