Weight – (without base) 6.27 oz’s – 178 gm’s
Dimensions – (without base) 3.03″ x 2.36″ long/wide (7.7 x 6 cm’s)
Country of Origin – Brazil
Smoky Amethyst Skeletal Elestial Quartz Crystal
NZD $109.00
SKU: E384
This Smoky Amethyst Quartz Crystal has fantastic elestial form and has a wonderful mixture of both Smoky and Amethyst Colors. The Amethyst colors are best viewed shining a light through the crystal. The multilayered skeletal form is impressive! The removable base featuring New Zealand Paua shell comes with the crystal! This specimen is in very good condition. Check out the video just above for the best view of this awesome specimen!
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Origins & Background
Amethyst has been valued across cultures for thousands of years for its rich violet coloration and its association with clarity, balance, and composure. The name Amethyst originates from the Greek word amethystos, meaning “not intoxicated,” reflecting an ancient belief that the stone helped maintain clear thinking and moderation.
Historically, Amethyst was considered a stone of royalty and spiritual authority. It adorned crowns, rings, and ceremonial objects in Ancient Greece and Rome and later throughout medieval Europe. Its purple color was rare and strongly associated with wisdom, restraint, and elevated status.
Significant Amethyst deposits are found in Brazil, Uruguay, Zambia, Madagascar, and Russia. Each locality produces crystals with distinctive growth habits, color zoning, and internal features, making provenance an important consideration for collectors and natural crystal enthusiasts.
Amethyst’s coloration develops through trace amounts of iron within the Quartz lattice combined with natural irradiation and geological heating over extended time periods. This process often creates layered growth zones that contribute to the depth and visual complexity seen in higher-quality specimens.
Some Amethyst crystals display structural growth features such as internal windows, phantoms, record keepers, and time-link faces. These are physical indicators of crystal formation rather than symbolic traits and are valued for the insight they provide into natural growth processes.
Geological Information
Amethyst is a violet variety of Quartz (Silicon Dioxide – SiO₂) that typically forms within cavities, veins, and geodes in igneous and metamorphic rock environments. Crystals usually grow as hexagonal prisms with pointed terminations.
The purple coloration results from trace iron incorporated into the Quartz structure combined with natural irradiation from surrounding rock. Subsequent geological heating stabilizes these color centers, producing hues that range from pale lavender to deep royal purple.
Amethyst commonly forms in volcanic environments, particularly within gas cavities of cooling basalt flows. Over millions of years, silica-rich fluids crystallize slowly, allowing layered growth and the development of internal zoning and structural features.
Common Geological Occurrences
- Volcanic basalt cavities and geodes
- Hydrothermal Quartz veins
- Metamorphic rock environments
Physical Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Mineral Species | Quartz (Amethyst variety) |
| Chemical Formula | SiO₂ |
| Crystal System | Trigonal |
| Hardness (Mohs Scale) | 7 |
| Luster | Vitreous |
| Transparency | Transparent to translucent |
| Fracture | Conchoidal |
Crystal Care & Ownership Advice
⚠️ Sunlight & Heat:
Prolonged exposure to intense sunlight or heat may cause some Amethyst specimens to fade over time. For long-term preservation, extended placement in direct sunlight is best avoided.
✋ Handling:
Amethyst is relatively durable, but sharp impacts can chip crystal points or edges. Handle specimens gently, especially clusters and terminated points.
🧼 Cleaning:
Clean Amethyst using lukewarm water and a soft brush. Avoid harsh chemicals, ultrasonic cleaners, or abrasive tools, which may damage crystal surfaces.
📦 Storage & Display:
Prolonged exposure to intense sunlight or high heat may cause some Amethyst specimens to fade over time.
For long-term preservation, extended placement in direct sunlight is best avoided. Indirect light or filtered natural light is ideal for display. This preserves color while still allowing the crystal’s natural beauty to be appreciated.
Elestial
Most Elestials come from Brazil, but from time to time they are also found in India, Australia, Africa, U.S.A. and several other locations.
The elestials from Brazil are from the Minas Gerais area. Minas Gerais is literally a maze of thousands of small mines covering a large area. Elestials come from one main area, or specifically, one large hill! They are found in small to medium-sized pockets, and all the crystals in each pocket share unique family traits. Even if two pockets of elestials are found only a few feet apart, each pocket of crystals will have its own signature form.
As Elestials can be so different, while growing physically close to each other, shows how super adaptable and in tune an Elestial is as it evolves, tuning into the Earth’s vibrations. Elestials help us to adapt to new light codes and to everything else that goes on around us on all the many levels.
For what and How Does One Use it?
Elestials are master healers and work on many, many levels.
Elestial Quartz crystals used in body layouts will purge toxicity from the major organs into the bloodstream. Complete the detoxification process by drinking lots of water.
Do not work with Elestial Quartz Crystals if you do not want an abundance of life lessons and change in your life!
Elestial Quartz crystals make very powerful and effective elixirs.
The translation for Elestial is “Crystal of the Angels,” and thus these crystals have a very strong link with the Angelic realm.
Elestials come in many different families, shapes and colors. Some have moving water bubbles inside them and these are called Enhydro Crystals.
Elestial crystals often have what is described as etching. It is often, but not always, part of typical Elestial form. Elestial Etching looks like a cosmic language, which funnily enough, it is! By stilling the mind and rubbing one’s hands and fingertips over the etching, one can connect with and “read” the crystal. Running your hands over the etching of the crystal may soon have your hands moving on their own! You are reading the crystal much the same way as the blind use Braille language. It is best to have no expectations through this process, but adjust your intuition setting to maximum! Also remember to drink lots of water afterwards as you will likely have been detoxified through this process.
Elestial Quartz Crystals often take Skeletal form, that is to say the crystal grows in layers like an onion. Sometimes the crystal will complete the last layer and you can gaze into it, seeing through the layers from the outside in. With other Elestials the layers may not complete, and you can actually see and feel the steps in layers! We humans have many layers and Skeletal Elestial Quartz Crystals assist us in stripping down layers of ourselves to help us confront and heal hidden conditions. They also may help us build up layers of understanding and knowledge to give a more complete picture of all that is.
There is the saying a picture is worth a thousand words. When working with Elestials one soon finds that these special gifts from the angels quickly transcend words. It pays to keep in mind, the first rule with Elestials is to throw away the rulebook!
Read more regarding Elestial Properties at the link below (will open in a new tab/window)….
Smoky Quartz
For what and How Does One Use it?
Smoky Quartz is almost the default crystal in any crystal healing layout. It is grounding and protective, and can transform negative energy into positive energy. As one friend put it to me, Smoky Quartz is good for humans, because we are currently quite murky beings ourselves!
It can also be found in Elestial form and on rare occasions, Cathedral formation. Smoky Quartz clusters can be found, but are really quite rare. Sometimes Smoky combines with Amethyst, which gives the benefits of both, as well as creating their own unique combined energy. Phantom Quartz crystals in Smoky are very powerful in breaking old patterns and blockages.
As an elixir Smoky Quartz can have great effect against radiation-induced illnesses. It purges toxicity from the major bodily organs. It is very good for reining in wayward emotions and helps one put things into perspective. Smoky Quartz helps keep us grounded while under great stress. It also is a great boost to the body’s immune system.
Smoky quartz works very well in conjunction with Rose Quartz, Amethyst and Citrine. In some cases you can get Bi-colored crystals such as Smoky and White Quartz, which has a balancing effect in all yin and yang issues. There is also a tri-color Elestial family that has Smoky/White and Citrine Quartz. These are very powerful manifestation crystals and are unfortunately getting hard to find now.
It is a very joyful crystal. It is helpful to hold if you have other crystals that un-ground you such as Moldavite.
A lot of Smoky Quartz on the market is actually heated Clear Quartz. Majestic Quartz only supplies natural Smoky Quartz. If it is not translucent at all, be very suspicious. I have only seen 2 Smoky Quartz crystals that are not translucent, but are actually the real thing.
Read more regarding Smoky Quartz Properties at the link below (will open in a new tab/window)….
Skeletal
For what and How Does One Use it?
Skeletal Quartz crystals are all about layers, be that peeling away layers of a puzzle to get an answer, or even building up layers of knowledge to understand the complete picture.
Meditating with these crystals is a wonderful way to get to the core of an issue. Then helping one build up an ever deepening understanding – layer, by layer.
Sometimes the crystals have other minerals trapped between the layers, or even water – turning the into an Enhydro Quartz crystal. These inclusions add to the overall abilities and effects these crystals exhibit.
It is worth noting: Though many Elestial Quartz crystals are indeed skeletal, that does not necessarily mean every Skeletal Quartz crystal is an Elestial. There are many different types of Quartz crystals that can form in skeletal layers.
Read more regarding Skeletal Quartz Properties at the link below (will open in a new tab/window)….
http://crystal-information.com/encyclopedia/skeletal-quartz/
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