Pink Amethyst Raw Specimen Geode Rock – 10cm – 162 grams – #02

Raw Natural Pink Amethyst Specimen Geode Rock / Stone

Country of Origin: Patagonia, Argentina

Quantity: 1 Pink Amethyst Geode. You will receive the exact gemstone shown in the photos.

Size: approx 4.5cm in height x 10cm in width x 7.2cm in depth

10-point scale of mineral hardness: 7.0 (10 – Hard, 1 soft)

Weight: 162 grams

Care has been taken to ensure that weights and measurements are as accurate as possible, however please do note that these are only approximate.

These specimens are in their natural raw form and shedding of small crystals is normal. Natural inclusions, cracks and pockets are all visible and all part of the natural stone. Please handle with extra care. These are very fragile stones.

Pink amethyst is a new colour variety of quartz coming from Patagonia, Argentina. The geodes are extracted by hand from “El Choique” and “Colli Cure” mines.

Several studies have been carried recently in the United States, Argentina and Germany in order to determine the nature of its coloration.

Specimens colour range between pale to moderate purplish pink. Optical, spectroscopic, Raman and microchemical analyses show that the pink colour in Patagonian quartz crystals is caused by the presence of two types of iron: iron activated by exposure to natural radiation, same chromophore than in the very well-known violet amethyst, and iron as microscopic hematite particles. In this sense, they are not rose quartz or pink quartz as classically defined, and since the colour of amethyst is, by definition, also caused by iron, the Patagonian specimens are referred to as “pink amethyst”.