Guinness World Record Mining: World's Largest Amethyst!

It is to date the largest amethyst ever mined in Uruguay: 15 whole tons of first-rate raw material worth several hundred thousand dollars. Twenty days of work to extract it without using explosives, with a hammer, wooden pickets and soft iron and, where possible, using small pneumatic hammers. The quartz that came to light certainly opened the heart of the owner of the mine, Mr. Riani, a mine located in La Soberana in the Catalan area, near Artigas, a city of 30,000 souls with streets named after Giuseppe Garibaldi and Dante Alighieri. We do not know where the magnificent specimen ended up, but it is assumed that it has already been cut after the obligatory ritual photos. Standing over three meters tall and weighing two and a half tons, the size is certainly impressive, but it is the sheer beauty that takes the breath away of people who see it for the first time. This is the world's largest Amethyst Geode - The Empress of Uruguay but the tens of thousands of perfect, Deep Purple amethyst crystals that nature has naturally formed inside truly amaze everyone who sees it.