Miners In Uruguay Get Surprised With A Beautiful Heart-Shaped Amethyst Geode

It’s weird to think that we perceive two equal curves meeting at a point at the bottom and a cusp at the top, or the combination of the less than sign and number three, like a heart.

Sure, it’s a symbol, the origins of which are nested back in the 6–5th century BC, that we all now assume as being the heart, though an actual human heart looks nothing like it.

But, regardless, it’s a cute symbol that we immediately recognize anywhere as the symbol of love. Well, turns out, nature approves of this symbol, as seen in this amethyst geode that some miners recently found.

This may be an arbitrary shape of a heart that we humans came up with, but turns out nature uses it too
So, a bunch of miners were hard at work at Uruguay Minerals’ new Santa Rosa mine in the Catalan area in Artigas, Uruguay, near the border with Brazil.

“It was a normal day at our mine located in the Catalan area in Artigas. The workers were just now allowed in the area to find more amethyst stones in the new mine,” elaborated Marcos Lorenzelli of Uruguay Minerals.

“However, the basalt was very hard, so one of them joked, ‘now we have to find some amazing beautiful stones due to the hard work we have to do here.’”