Amethyst gemstone is one of the Earth Beautiful Stone. In the purest form, Amethyst is colorless. The finest quality is dark in tone. It is a clear purple stone with variety of quartz and is a popular gemstone. Th color is said to be the color of royalty and nobility. It is one of the most beautiful colored gemstones. The rich violet color is generally the most expensive, but a stone of medium color intensity, with lots of brightness, can also be very attractive. Because of its popularity, it is available in a wide variety of cut and uncut stones which is admired. Amethyst is not very expensive, even in high qualities, it is not very expensive. It is a wonderful
affordable gemstone. The hardness of amethyst is 7. It contains more iron oxide
Fe2O3 than any other variety of quartz, and experts believe that its color arises from its iron content.Amethyst gemstone word has been derived from its name from Middle English amatist, from Old French, from Latin amethystus, from Greek amethustos, not drunk or intoxicating. This was maybe due to a belief that amethyst would ward off the effects of alcohol, but most likely the Greeks were referring the almost wine-like color of some stones that they may have encountered. Amethyst is mined in
Brazil,
Uruguay,
Sri Lanka,
Siberia,
Canada,
India,
Bolivia, and
Argentina and some African countries. Amethyst from South America tends to be available in larger sizes than African amethyst but amethyst from
Africa has the reputation for having better,
more saturated, color in small sizes. Very dark amethyst, mostly in small sizes is mined in
Australia.
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