Amethyst at the Crater Rock Museum

They had several amazing specimins of amethyst at the museum.

Behind glass
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Using my hand for scale
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Standing alone with Shanna for scale
This specimin includes a large cluster of quartz crystals (as you may know amethyst is a form of quartz so this isn’t surprising, but the size and location of the the quartz is)
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Then there was this pair, clearly a geode formation that was cut in half.
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And a closer look
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