Amethyst 14mm Faceted Heart A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Amethyst 14mm Faceted Heart A Grade - 15-16 InchAmethyst is a beautiful purple stone, known as a Gem of Fire by ancient cultures. It has been greatly sought after throughout history and was at times valued as highly as Diamond. Today, this semi to precious variety of quartz is found in many locations around the world. The presence of Manganese within the stone produces the purple hue, and variation of the amount of iron in the stone creates a color range from reddish purple to deep violet to light

It can even exhibit various colors within the same specimen

spread by the impact with the earth or moved through glacial changes

Opals are hydrated amorphous forms of silica

colored by trace amounts of chromium and/or vanadium to range in hue from yellow to green to blue to green

Essentially a volcanic glass

and bold black spiderweb matrix—creating highly distinctive

Hematite is an iron oxide and one of the few gemstones with a metallic luster

black and red

brown and red bands of color allow the stone to be matched with many other gemstones in designs

and gives a silvery green or blue sheen

which receive their color from trace amounts of chromium

whose name is derived from the Greek word for Rose