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Wake County Amethyst inclusions
Dec 12th, 2017 at 9:05pm
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Rutile?
  
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Re: Wake County Amethyst inclusions
Reply #1 - Dec 12th, 2017 at 10:03pm
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Wow Scott!  That is beautiful!
  
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Re: Wake County Amethyst inclusions
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Thanks Julie!
  
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Re: Wake County Amethyst inclusions
Reply #3 - Dec 13th, 2017 at 2:39pm
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Nice specimen and photo, Scott.

That looks like rutile to me.  Here's a specimen I have, from the Friday Farm in Gaston Co., that has some rutile needles.  These needles are not as prominent as in your Wake specimen.

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Re: Wake County Amethyst inclusions
Reply #4 - Dec 13th, 2017 at 7:10pm
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Nice amethyst and picture Dennis!
  
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