Saurüssel, Mayrhofen, Schwaz District, Tyrol, Austria
10 x 10cm. Very intense coloured Amethyste, lustrous, fantastic assemble. Collection Gebrüder Hofer. Photo Christian Hager.
© Martin Gruell
17cm high!!!! One of the very best specimen of Austria. Collection Gebrüder Hofer. Photo Christian Hager.
Amethyst Zepter crystal. Josef Huber from my Collection
© Josef Huber
35mm high. Intense colour, perfect assemble. Some Hematite at the base, minor Rutile. Found by Heinz Kirchtag. Collection and Photo Christian Hager.
Amethyst Zepter mit Fenster, Aplitgneis. Bright purple lustrous amethyste sceptre crystal atop rock crystal, crystal faces ( Sceptre) partly stepped, white aplit gneis matrix attached. Locality : Saurüssel, Zemmgrund, Ziller valley, Austria
22cm high!!! Out of this world - a phantastic piece. The faces of this giant zeptre show windows and excellent lustre. Undamaged. Collection Ingeborg and Anton Watzl sr. / Photo Anton Watzl sr.
Scepter with beautiful luster, intense colour, sharp terminated faces and edges. At the base a second intergrown scepter. Martin Gruell Alpine Collection, photo Gruell
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Doubly-terminated purple amethyst quartz crystal with complex terminations and crystal faces. Small rosette of hematite on one end. The complex surfaces look incomplete, but all faces are naturally crystallized.
© 2001 John H. Betts
A sharp and highly lustrous pale purple amethyst with stepped faces ( "windows") ,doubly terminated with multipeaked terminations.
Pseudomorph of Limonite after Siderite, with clear rock crystals. Dimension : 9,5 x 5 cm
A lustrous sceptre amethyst, height 3 cm , on albite, minor muscovite.
Spectacular Amethyst from the June 2004 find. Field of view is 20 cm. Collection Hannes and Gerhard Hofer.
© Erwin Burgsteiner
Clear and well formed sceptre quartz with a pale purple tip. Crystal size about 3.1 x 1.3 x 1.2 cms.
© Christian Bracke
Gemmy amethyst sceptre, bright purple color, partly stepped faces, with actinolithe inclusions, associated with ankerite, quartz, limonite Sceptre : 2,5 cm
Overall size : 4,5 x 5 cm Red-brown rutile - showing reticulated growth( Var. Sagenite) with quartz, chlorite on gneis.
Lustrouse Amethyste with several windows and an unusual colour, mined 1976 by Rudolf Planitzer. LAPIS Cover November-issue 2011. Collection Erika and Rudolf Planitzer. Foto Martin Gruell.
12 mm upright grown fine sagenite cluster on albite, quartz, chlorite
Lustrous and glassy rock crystals with actinolithe inclusions on white Aplitgneis matrix Width of the piece : 6,5 cm
Lustrous and clear sceptre amethyst, about 3 cm high. Second image available. Collection Andreas Hirt.
Clear and lustrous sceptre quartz with an amethyst cap. Crystal heighth 4.2 cm. Second image available. Collection Andreas Hirt.
Well formed amethyst sceptre is set nicely on a bed of small quartz crystals with other small sceptres. Matrix is aplitgneis. Major crystal approx. 3,5 cm.
The specimen is a floater, there is no front or backside, no base - it is perfect in every position. The colour is very intense for the locality, all faces show perfect lustre. Bi-terminated with windows. Ex- Anton Watzl Sr.-Collection Martin Gruell Alpine Collection, Foto Martin Gruell.
Dimensions: 9.6 cm hDate: 12-07-10Notes: scepterImage Method: digitalJeff Scovil Photo Reference: 2010-07-0114Recorded locality: Sauruessel, Ziller Valley, Tirol, Austria
© Jeffrey A. Scovil
Sceptre quartz of 3.1 cm length, with a very pale amethyst tip.
Light purple amethyst sceptre crystal resting on a bed of rock crystals with chlorite inclusions. Most of the quartz showing negative sceptres. Amethyst sceptre without damage, showing nice windows and perfect luster.
Glassy rock crystals perched on white albite, partly chlorite. Widht : 14 cm
13 x 7 x 5cm. Very glossy xls with high transperency, some are even water-clear. See 2nd image!!! Material Bacher/Gruell. Photo Gruell.
A perfect pale purple amethyst szeptre with lustrous termination faces, showing some "windows".Doubly terminated.Without damage and complete all around. First generation in a small quartz crystal with green chlorite inclusions. See also another view.
Amethyst scepter, 6cm by 9.5cm. Joseph Polityka collection from Lavinsky, 2006. Formerly in the Wein collection and according to the label was collected in 1981. The location is listed as Berliner Hutte.
Scepter amethyst size: approx. 3cm Laurent Bernard Collection
© L. Bernard
Amethyst Sceptre. Josef Huber from my Collection
A zepter on matrix, 3cm tall with light colour. Material and photo Gruell
Cleft-Beryll with Limonite, Muscovite and etched Quarz. In Coll. M.Slama Canon EOS 600D with Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x, stacked from 38 Images using Zerene Stacker (Pmax)
© Martin Slama
In Coll. M. Slama Canon EOS 600D with Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x, stacked from 27 Images using Zerene Stacker (Pmax)
Roch Crystal with Chlorite inclousons. Saurüssel, Zemmgrund, Ziller Valley, Tyrol, Austria. 59 x 22 mm. Collection & Photo Martin Rich.
© Martin Rich
Self collected in August 1985. National park now - no collecting allowed.....
© hamster@aon.at
Two lovely amethyst scepters with "windows" on the pyramidal faces are sitting on a small pice of matrix like a pair of mushrooms. Highly aesthetic and of very good quality with hardly any visible damage. An appealing small cabinet piece with glassy crystals, faint but visible amethyst color and appealing composition!
© Rudolf Watzl, Saphira Minerals
Chris Auer photo and collection, swapped in the 1990ies
© AC
This little candy is a very sharp and glassy amethyst sceptre with inclusions of mica and rutile near the bottom. With the exception of one virtually invisible chip at the middle section this quartz is flawless.
© Saphira Minerals e.U.
peter neschen collection (g-05898-05) Nikon D7000 + Sigma 150mm Apo Macro + Helicon Focus Methode B
Snow in August, only some small amethyste specimen for us
© klaus ludwig
Already empty, no minerals for us
Looking back from Saurüssel hiking trail to Berliner Hütte, the valley in the background is a location for small garnet crystals
It's very difficult to find crystals, at first you need a mineral pocket
Here we found some small amethyst crystals up to 1 cm
Berliner Hütte, 2042 m, accommodation and starting point to Saurüssel location
View from Saurüssel to Mörchner, a famous location for good minerals