Pink Amethyst Raw Geode Specimen Rock – 85 grams

Raw Natural Pink Amethyst Specimen Rock / Stone

Country of Origin: Argentina

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

Size: approx 5cm in height x 4.5cm in width x 3.5cm in depth

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

Weight: 85 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 Argentine Patagonia. The geodes are extracted by hand from our mines “El Choique” and “Colli Cure”

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

Specimens color range between pale to moderate purplish pink. Optical, spectroscopic, Raman and microchemical analyses show that the pink color in Patagonian quartz crystals is caused by the presence of two types of iron: iron activated by exposure to natural radiation, same crhomophore 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 color of amethyst is, by definition, also caused by iron, the Patagonian specimens are referred to as “pink amethyst”.