Weight – 1.95 oz’s – 55.4 gm’s
Dimensions – 1.968″ x 2.211″ tall/wide (4.998 x 5.616 cm’s)
High Grade Amethyst Carved Heart With Citrine
USD $27.00
SKU: P3908
This Amethyst has been carved and polished into a Heart. The color is incredible with wonderful clarity! With a small inclusion of Citrine, and rainbows visible when you explore the piece. In excellent condition!
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Amethyst 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 traits and are valued for both the insight they provide into natural growth processes and to possible Metaphysical propoties.
Amethyst 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 |
Amethyst 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.
Rainbow Quartz
For what and How Does One Use it?
Rainbow Crystals are very good manifestation crystals – as they have all colors of the rainbow inside them. This means they stimulate every chakra, thus stimulating every creative level possible. The full spectrum of colors make it easier to bring these manifestations into physical reality.
A good manifesting meditation exercise to do with a rainbow crystal is to lie down – place the crystal on your solar plexus. Now using visualization – concentrate on breathing in each color through the crystal, then on wards through the solar plexus and into the chakra concerned. Start with red for the root chakra, orange for sacral, gold for solar plexus, green then pink for the heart, blue for the throat, purple for the third eye, and white light for the crown. Seven breaths for each chakra should suffice. Now you are attuned to the crystal and have activated the 7 chakras – you are ready to use conscious intent to place your manifestation wishes within the quartz using the crystal programming technique. Once you feel comfortable the crystal has received what you wish to manifest into your life – the crystal will go on radiating that program 24/7, vastly accelerating the manifestation process.
Rainbow Quartz Crystals come in all the different flavors and varieties of quartz. The rainbows help expand that crystals default properties. An example would be the default root chakra grounding properties of Smoky Quartz will be expanded to the rest of the chakras covered by that particular rainbows color spectrum. These higher energies generated by the rainbow will be grounded into each chakra by the Smoky Quartz grounding properties.
Read more regarding Rainbow Quartz Properties at the link below (will open in a new tab/window)….
http://crystal-information.com/encyclopedia/rainbow-quartz/
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Citrine Quartz
For what and How Does One Use it?
Citrine is a beautiful vibrant energy. It is one of the best anti-depressant crystals available! One way to use it for treating depression is to place it on the solar plexus, and visualize yourself breathing the gold color into your body. Feel the golden energy fill your body with joy and happiness. Visualize your body glowing with warmth and emanating golden light like the rays bursting forth from the dawning sun.
Citrine Elestial Quartz Crystals have a strong focus on detoxifying the body. The vibration operates at a level that literally shakes the toxicity loose from the major organs such as the liver, kidneys, and lungs. Place a Citrine Elestial on your body and relax, breathe in deeply and smoothly. Do your best to empty your mind of mental clatter. Perform this routine for as long as feels comfortable. Make sure you drink plenty of water over the next three days as the toxicity will be flushed out into your bloodstream, and the water will help you remove it from your system entirely.
Citrine Quartz is also a popular crystal for manifestation. The golden ray naturally attracts abundance in many forms. Be open-ended as possible within your manifesting processes in order to allow the Universe to provide your needs in possibly the most unexpected ways!
How to identify Natural vs Irradiated Citrine
Irradiated crystals are ones that have been heated to alter their color. A classic example is that most Citrine is in fact a variety of Amethyst that when heated to a high temperature turns to a bright gold color.
It is easy to spot, as it has a reddish tinge to it. Bright Gold Citrine is VERY rare in nature.
Read more regarding Citrine Quartz Properties at the link below (will open in a new tab/window)….
Ametrine
For what and How Does One Use it?
Ametrine is a superb bridge between our masculine and feminine sides. It is a highly creative, motivational crystal that also helps one to overcome addictions. It has fantastic manifesting properties, with the Amethyst component providing the creative visual energy, combined with Citrine’s natural manifesting energy from the solar plexus chakra, coming together to work in synergy to greatly accelerate the manifesting process. Ametrine is also an effective crystal for dealing with and overcoming depression. It has a grounding influence when meditating.
Ametrine’s natural position when used as a pendant is the solar plexus, but really as long as it is in one’s auric field, anywhere is good!
Summary
Ametrine is a joyous happy crystal that anybody can enjoy having. After all, who would not benefit from the combined energies of two of the most significant healing crystals on the planet, that being Amethyst and Citrine!
Read more regarding Ametrine Properties at the link below (will open in a new tab/window)….
http://crystal-information.com/encyclopedia/ametrine/
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