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It's a classic vs a newbie as the most common named mineral in the crust Quartz is up against an exceedingly-rare sea foam-green mineral discovered just a few years ago Asagiite.
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Amethyst from
Volk Island (Volkostrov), Medvezhyegorsky District, Republic of Karelia, Russia


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Volk Island (Volkostrov), Medvezhyegorsky District, Republic of Karelia, Russia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1512207
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1512207:8
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
11.8km (7.4 miles) ⓘKondoberezhskaya Deposit, Zaonezhie peninsula, Medvezhyegorsky District, Republic of Karelia, Russia
References
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André, Christian Carl (1802) Verzeichnis und Beschreibung einiger russischen Mineralien, die für den Herausgeber des Tageblatts unterwegens sind
Foullon, Alexandre (1812) Notices sur une production minérale du Gouvernement d'Olonetz. Mémoires de la Société des naturalistes de Moscou, Volume 3, 289-298
Severguine, Basile [Severgin, Vasily] (1827) Notice sur l’oxide de fer en forme d’aigulles qui se trouve sur les amethysts de l’isle de Kija en Onega. Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae, 13, 395-396
Rose, G. (1842) Reise nach dem Ural, dem Altai und dem Kaspischen Meere. Mineralogisch-geognostischer Theil und historischer Bericht der Reise. Band 1. Verlag der Sanderschen Buchhandlung (C. W. Heichhoff), Berlin, pages 47-48
Starikov, Yu.I. [Стариков, Ю.И.] (1980) Report on the results of detailed prospecting works on collectors' raw materials, carried out in the Karelian-Kola region in the years 1978-80 [Отчет о результатах детальных поисковых работ на коллекционное сырье, проведенных в Карело-Кольском регионе за 1978-80 гг.]. Production Association "Severkvartssamotsvety" [ПО "Северкварцсамоцветы"], Leningrad (in Russian)
Lavrov, O.B. [Лавров, О.Б.] (2019) History of the study of amethyst and associated mineralization from Volkostrov island (Lake Onega, Karelia) [История изучения аметистовой и сопутствующей минерализации острова Волкостров (Онежское озеро, Карелия)]. In: «Mineralogical museums 2019. Mineralogy yesterday, today, tomorrow». Proceedings of the scientific conference [«Минералогические музеи – 2019. Минералогия вчера, сегодня, завтра». Материалы научной конференции]. Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, 41-42 (in Russian).
 
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