Amethyst is the purple variety of the quartz mineral species. It's the gem that's most commonly associated with the color purple, even though there are other purple gems such as sapphire and tanzanite. Its purple color can be cool and bluish, or a reddish purple that's sometimes referred to as “raspberry.”

Amethyst’s purple color can range from a light lilac to a deep, intense royal purple, and from brownish to vivid. Amethyst also commonly shows what is called color zoning, which in the case of amethyst usually consists of angular zones of darker to lighter color.

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz. The name comes from the Koine Greek amethystos from and methysko metho, "intoxicate", a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness.

It has Hardness of 7 on Mohs hardness scale

Associated month: February

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