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At Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine
 
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Graduate student Laura Baker next to a cluster of large amethyst crystals in the Amethyst Mine Panorama deposit near Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Research aimed at understanding the origin of color of different colored varieties of quartz is one of the activities of the mineralogy group at Caltech. June, 2002.

Photo courtesy of George Rossman